Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps not since the Depression has the American electorate seemed quite so restive and unpredictable. In the midst of a spring of startling primaries, the mood of the voters has often been bigger news than anything the candidates have said or done. Clearly, the public's shifting predilections, opinions and prejudices are not only changing the nature of the election but also steering the U.S. toward what may be a crucial intersection of its history...
...monitor the changeable voter mood this election year, TIME has commissioned Daniel Yankelovich Inc. to select and periodically interview members of a TIME Citizens Panel. The panel consists of 200 citizens chosen at random out of a carefully selected larger sample of 2,000 people who are a cross section of the national voting-age population. Here is the first of seven reports on the American mood this election year...
...voters of 1972 are in a sour, gloomy mood based on multiple frustrations. A majority of them are sick of the war in Viet Nam and feel that it is going badly. Most voters complain about street crimes and fear that all kinds of crime are increasing. They are angry at what they consider a still-spiraling cost of living and unfair, ever-rising taxes, while their income seems to be frozen. They regard busing to integrate schools as foolish. As they search for the causes of their malaise, they do not necessarily blame President Nixon. But they do feel...
...high demands; management counters with an unrealistically low offer-and just before a strike is called, the two sides meet somewhere more or less in the middle. But this year, with the economy still muddling along in a recession, management let it be known that it was in no mood for bargaining games, while labor demanded even more than the usual raise as a reward for past years of hard work. Instead of picking a large manufacturer as their strike target, the unions decided to shut down the privately owned commuter-transportation industry...
...Young Turks of all ages, assembled in a crowded hall on Manhattan's West Side, weighed not profit and loss but the less tangible standards of their craft. The tumultuous two-day A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention* was timed to coincide with the publishers' gathering, and the mood of confusion and malaise generated by the Lieblingers produced the desired contrast. The nonstop critique underscored journalism's variety and energy-plus a widespread disenchantment with conventional practices. It was, in a way, journalism's Woodstock...