Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eisenstadt said he felt the protest was the product of "a general mood as a result of what's been going on at other prisons across the state and across the country. There was no forewarning at all, absolutely none...
...York Post column by Editor James Wechsler on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Lafayette Black seemed innocuous enough. Black's departure, wrote Wechsler, "would enable President Nixon to replace him with a man more congenial to the mood of this Administration." Three days after that, a rebuke from Publisher Dorothy Schiff appeared in the Post's "Letters to the Editor" column. "You insist," said Wechsler's boss, "that Mr. Black's so far unnamed successor must be 'a man' (italics mine) of stature, dignity and learning. What an opportunity you have given...
Changing the source of the money, however, may not increase its amount. In Washington and among many educators, a go-slow mood has been given fresh rationale by academic research showing no automatic relationship between money spent on schools and students' performance on standard achievement tests. For the time being, a new emphasis on finding out what really works may be the only really beneficial byproduct of the squeeze...
Kingman Brewster, President of Yale University, described last year's campus mood as one of "eerie tranquillity." FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's annual report said that the number of campus demonstrations, logged chiefly from press reports, was down two thirds from the year before. Scores of other commentators, including TIME, concluded that at the very least the campus uproar that had culminated in the protests after the Kent and Jackson State shootings had given way to a new calm. Last week a report by the American Council on Education put that view up against the wall...
...world. He traveled the ruined Balkans after World War I, then went to Paris, hoping to join the secretariat of the fledgling League of Nations. "Enemies had been beaten, dynasties toppled, peoples freed, visible results of victory won at frightful cost," Armstrong writes in these memoirs, recalling the hopeful mood that was to seem later the most inadequate innocence. "Surely the nations had suffered enough and learned enough to be ready to try living by a code of rational behavior. It was exhilarating to realize that the experiment was to be made in my lifetime...