Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Chamber of Deputies, the MSI held 24 of the 630 seats. On the strength of the national mood, and recent MSI showings in local and regional elections, Almirante expects to double that. Since the number of dedicated oldtime Fascists is limited, Almirante is stressing the concept of a "national right" and adopting what observers call "an ecumenical approach," in order to appeal to businessmen, professionals, youth and the 70% of Italian workers who are nonunionized. The party has issued a doctrinaire platform calling for "authority with liberty," a strong presidential form of government, curbs on strikes, and worker representation...
When Folk Singer Woody Guthrie died in 1967 at the age of 55, he was already a legend. It was only natural that when his friends, loved ones and musical kinfolk gathered in New York's Carnegie Hall the next year to pay him tribute in song, their mood was not entirely somber. It was also touched by a joyful awareness of the continuing life in Guthrie's music...
...beside the murder mysteries, and out of late-show monster movies, into the serious mind. But also, in the same month as that first New York screening. Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis. At that point one could note, in retrospect, the beginning of a political and cultural mood during which a lot of Red-blooded American Kids would stop reading science fiction...
Aggression. What has made this revival possible is a better understanding of the brain itself. As neurologists recognized the drawbacks of lobotomy, they began to shift their attention to the limbic system (which has diffuse interconnections throughout the brain), theorizing that it was somehow connected with mood and behavior. Others found that psychomotor epilepsy-a condition that can result from injury and makes some of its victims violently and uncontrollably aggressive-is often accompanied by the presence of tiny epileptic foci, or small scars, in the temporal lobe. Some doctors concentrated on the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped body whose...
...profits for several years and now will do almost anything to bring earnings up. They want to see more solid evidence of the business comeback before relaxing their grip on the corporate budget. E.F. Andrews, a vice president of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Ludlum Industries, sums up the mood with considerable hyperbole: "When you have been lying in the gutter and finally reach the curb, you feel better, but not that much better...