Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they soliloquize on private terrors, and create minor crises for each other, knowing what they do there will reverberate no further. His plays deal with nostalgia and hope, they have the static quality of a dream rather than the dynamic quality of fact. Williams' drama is a drama of mood, and he trades in language and gesture rather than action...
...still the students sleep. Time and Newsweek call it apathy, or "the new mood on campus." Perhaps Nixon's Vietnamization program has succeeded in de-Vietnamizing America and the colleges. It has made the war seem more distant: our friends are no longer being killed, our war is being fought by mercenaries and computers, our televisions speak of the economy and China...
...twelve lawyers from across the nation, completed its investigations of Friday and Lillie. By its rules, eight of the twelve must approve in order that a nominee be deemed qualified. The committee split 6-6 on Friday. On Judge Lillie, the vote was 11-1 against. The White House mood was one of barely controlled fury. Nixon's congressional-liaison team advised the President that he would face another ruinous battle in the Senate if he stuck with Friday and Mrs. Lillie. For Nixon, who told aides that his court appointments would determine his place in history...
...represent China's nearly 800 million people, or whether Taipei will continue to represent the 14 million people of Taiwan. At Turtle Bay and Westminster alike, the debates were disappointingly humdrum, for no orator proved capable of crafting words to match the moment. Yet, in both places, the mood was expectant and electric...
...Bristol-Myers and now were being asked to absorb economic theory. But no one looked tired. The timetable on the 5:56 was clear enough: 76 minutes to Huntington on this evening, two years to an M.B.A., more prestige in the office and perhaps bigger salaries. The mood was positive...