Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also Law Day, and that coincidence served, in a way, to define some perimeters of the national mood. Demonstrators massed in Washington and other cities to protest the war, as they have each spring since 1965. While the demonstrations had an immediate potential for violence, many Americans continued to fear lawlessness from their own institutions -wiretapping, for example, and other intimations of Big Brotherhood...
Construction Spurt. There are a number of more favorable portents. The long-reticent U.S. consumer may finally be in a shopping mood: retail sales for mid-April were 7% above those for a year ago, and last week Motorola reported a 65% jump in unit sales over April 1970. A continuation of the high level of residential building and a sudden spurt in other construction (up 6% for March on the Dodge index) encourages hope that the owners of all this new living and working space will decide to buy furniture and appliances for it in the not-too-distant...
...music that Sondheim writes is uniquely theatre music. It is music that evokes and depends upon the mood and textural qualities which are operating on stage at the time it is being performed. In this way it differs totally from the music of a composer such as Burt Bacharach ( Promises, Promises ), who wrote pop songs that sometimes end up getting sung on Broadway instead of in night clubs. It is a problem to record theatre music successfully, because the music and lyrics are only part of what comprises the stage moment; whatever the other parts are, they are absent from...
...crowd assembled and marched rapidly down Tremont St., chanting. Demonstrators rallied briefly on the Common in a jubilant mood. "Business did not go on at the Federal Building today." said one speaker. "and we're going to be back there very soon...
Putnam argued in a Faculty meeting April 13 that the recommended procedures "expose the sham neutrality of the University." He described the recommended procedures as "an attempt to stampede the faculty into a mood of repression which could be used to purge me from the faculty and people who think like...