Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gesture better captured the spirit and mood of Teng's nine-day visit to the U.S. last week. After surviving purges back home, setting his country on a quick-step march toward modernization, and winning diplomatic recognition from the most powerful nation in the West, Teng could be forgiven for indulging in a moment of triumph. His trip to Washington was the first ever by a top-ranking Chinese Communist leader, and it added a personal normalization of relations between the two countries to the diplomatic normalization that took effect...
...failing to achieve real leadership of the nation, Carter has so far proved unable to break post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate mood of bitterness and distrust that, in part, brought him to office. He is treated with less respect by the public, the Congress and the press than would be expected of a man of his record and rather benign personality. All this has produced a sense of regret in the President himself. "The duty of our generation of Americans," he noted last week, "is to renew our nation's faith-not focused just against foreign threats, but against...
...joyous mood that overtook Iran after the Shah fled the country was all but over. Last week Iran faced new violence, new tests of wills, new forebodings about an uncertain future that might involve chaos, coups, civil war. Without much visible success, the government of the Shah's appointee, Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, struggled for both popularity and credibility. Led by generals fiercely loyal to the Shah, the army stayed on the alert, clashing sporadically with opponents of the monarch. At week's end, Bakhtiar made a dramatic bid to break the impasse. He offered to meet early...
Carl Rosen '80, secretary treasurer of UCHSR and a member of the Leverett House committee, said yesterday he believes the committee vote may indicate the mood of other Houses because Leverett House student opinion is the "middle of the road...
...Because of the way in which the invitation was handled, the mood on campus is such that a visit by you at this time would be very untimely, especially for the Republican Club here," the letter states...