Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Donovan's statement in "Coming to Terms with Viet Nam" [June 14] that "we may well have accomplished more in South Viet Nam than in our present mood we give ourselves credit for" is a repetition of a theme that no one has thus far been inclined, or able, to clarify for the ordinary mind. We are still faced with the "obscurity of the obvious." No one can doubt the honor, ability, brilliance, etc., of the men who carried out the policy, but once again we are reminded of the old adage, "If only evil men did evil things...
...least subliminally, the Ellsberg affair was bound to affect the mood of both the country and Congress, adding some velocity to the antiwar tides. The Senate showed growing impatience with the Administration's Viet Nam disengagement policies and was in a mood for strong action. By virtue of only one vote, hawks were able to gut an amendment to the draft extension bill that would have cut off all funds for U.S. military operations in Indochina within nine months. The Senate then went on to pass with ease, 57 to 42, a bill proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield...
Eventually, he would pace his bedroom far into the night reflecting on the dying Americans and Vietnamese. Sensing the shift in mood, Columnist Joe Alsop pronounced him a splendid "defense minister" but lacking the innate toughness required in a "war minister." After McNamara appeared at a congressional hearing in summer 1967 and criticized the bombing policy as futile, Johnson griped that he had gone "dove," and arranged for him to be appointed president of the World Bank...
...French teen-agers sweated through the notorious 13-to 18-hr. tortures of oral and written baccalauréat exams last week. They seemed docile enough. After all, their careers, future incomes and their very status in French society were at stake. But below the surface their mood was likely to be very different. In the past five months, tens of thousands of lycee (secondary school) students have rebelled at hundreds of the 2,258 state-run schools, occupying buildings, staging hunger strikes and fighting police...
...Queen of the Seas." The symbolism accompanying the dense, involuted prose is no less affected. But Death in Venice works, as a tale, a moral instruction and as art. Of all authors, Mann was the least ingenuous. He deliberately chose the Romantic mode to bid adieu to the romantic mood. Through the spacious andante of Death in Venice, one can hear the contrapuntal knell of the 19th century with all its values, poses and styles...