Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inventory. In most sections of the country, a bleak and occasionally despairing mood has settled over party regulars contemplating a McGovern nomination. Their disconsolate argument is that McGovern, besides losing the presidency to Richard Nixon in November, may drag other Democrats down to defeat with him, possibly costing the party control of state legislatures, courthouses, the U.S. Senate and even the House...
Beleaguered though it appeared, the A.M.A. was in no mood for a radical internal overhaul. Last November, then-President Wesley Hall proposed that the A.M.A. draft an entirely new constitution. Despite speculation that the issue would at least be debated last week, it was barely mentioned. Instead, the hierarchy and the house of delegates administered verbal tranquilizers to those on both sides of several questions. While there was vocal opposition, for instance, to doctors' unions, which Hoffman thought would be improper, the delegates deferred taking any formal position on them...
Some of the greatest art is ineloquent. It does not argue or get into expressive tangles. Most of La Tour's surviving work lies on this latitude of the imagination, sharing it with other purifiers of experience: Piero della Francesca, Poussin, Cézanne. Its fundamental condition, the mood of La Tour's key paintings, is a kind of analytical silence: a stillness that mediates between the logic of Descartes and the mysticism of Pascal, both of whom were La Tour's approximate contemporaries. To see the candle flame play on the faces of La Tour...
...committees was formed and House meetings called. The campus was swamped with posters and leaflets calling on students to respond to the President's arrogance; in addition, the controversy over Harvard's ownership of Gulf Oil stock was peaking, and the black students' protest fueled the growing activist mood...
McGovern is undoubtedly right in arguing that America's safety does not depend upon sheer nuclear numbers, as the recent U.S.-Soviet agreements bear witness. And there is always a mood in the country to cut back on arms in the wake of a war. But the net effect of McGovern in the White House would likely be that the U.S. would be living more dangerously. No one can be sure, for example, that the nuclear arms race can be slowed more by the example of unilateral U.S. reductions than by bargaining based on threats of escalation...