Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign had been under way -haltingly-for weeks, and now the traditional Labor Day launch date came and went with much of the nation in a curiously apathetic and unpolitical mood. TIME correspondents exploring voter sentiment last week kept catching a counter-question: "What campaign?" Such indifference could only please Richard Nixon, whose own campaign may not be exciting anyone, but it commands such a lead that his only concern is to preserve the status quo. It is bad news for George McGovern, who is in dire need of igniting some fires, of conquering the fatal idea that...
...civil rights hymn We Shall Overcome. "We've got to let them know in there that we are with them, that they're not alone," explained one. The eerie wah-wah, wah-wah of police sirens echoed everywhere while army helicopters fluttered overhead. The mood inside Olympic Village changed under the stress from Gemütlichkeit to outrage. At one point, when a terrorist appeared on a balcony of the Israeli quarters, athletes badgered him from adjacent rooftops: "Take your guns and get out of here...
Having turned 88, Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of Leo Tolstoy, was in the mood for reminiscing. "One day we were reading War and Peace aloud," said Miss Tolstoy at her home in Valley Cottage, N.Y., "and father came into the room, and he stood there with his hands inside the belt of his blouse, and he said, 'What's that? It isn't badly written.' He was a vegetarian and a pacifist, but when a mosquito sat on the head of Chertkov [one of Tolstoy's followers], father killed it without a thought. Chertkov turned...
...those in a selfindulgently romantic mood, a visit to the rooms of Henry David Thoreau 1830 (Hollis 23) and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820 (Hollis 5) should deliver philosophic reinforcement. For more modern idealists, George Santayana's 1870 presence in Hollis 25 should invoke practical spiritual sustenance...
...author quotes Henry Kissinger as saying it is "beyond imagination that parties that have been murdering and betraying each other for 21 years could work together." But according to FitzGerald, the biggest recent change in Viet Nam's mood is the intensifying hostility not toward each other but toward all foreigners, especially in the packed, volatile cities. Arguing historically, moreover, she thinks that it is not a bit beyond imagination that the Vietnamese can reach accommodation with each other in a search for the "correct" way to live and order their life as a nation. · Martha Duffy