Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ticket, I can see how a guy in the splendid isolation of South Dakota could feel that I should go. But I haven't been in South Dakota. I have been in Los Angeles and Honolulu and San Francisco, and I feel a different mood. Politics isn't a science like physics, where you put things in a beaker and measure them. What makes or breaks a politician is how he perceives the public pulse, the public mood. I'm confident as I can be that the public is with me. I'm not living...
...that, the candidate was in a somewhat melancholy mood. He confessed to being "a little bit depressed" at the thought of turning 50. He referred sarcastically to a poll showing him a certain winner in November only in South Dakota and the District of Columbia. His spirits were buoyed, however, by a letter from former John Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen, who assured him that J.F.K. had also started his 1960 campaign when "practically nobody who was anybody...
McGovern's mood was only somewhat brightened when Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley halfheartedly announced that he would "support every candidate on the Democratic ticket, federal, state and local." Not once did Daley mention McGovern's name. Since Illinois might be crucial to a Democratic victory in November, the question remained whether Daley would exert his still considerable power in behalf of the national ticket or merely concentrate on getting local and state candidates elected. Asked whether he blamed McGovern for his exclusion from the convention, Daley replied with laughter: "What do you think...
...happier mood suffuses a stroll the grandmother takes with her tiny grandson. "What will you be when you grow up, and where will I be then?" she questions the oblivious tot, with a wistful but optimistic view of the future. Her strongest link with the future, although she successfully hides it from both children and husband alike, is a sure fore-knowledge of her own approaching death. This is to be her first and last visit to Tokyo. But she never lets her intuition become evident; she cannot lower herself by making her children feel guilty, though they have sinned...
...talk. With roadies, with union people, with anybody. Hockey with the crew, superstars with the roadies. The stage is up, the lights and the mirror are in, the sound system trucks have been places by the stage, and the Garden has begun to settle into a pre-show mood. We learn that the crew is staying in the Madison. "Yeah, we had a lousy hotel in Montreal too," and that the way to get back at these hotels is to cut a slit in the mattress, take a shit into the slit, and leave. One of the crew had only...