Word: moods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mood of the demonstrators seemed almost monolithically peaceful. Boston Police reported no arrests or violent incidents...
...College students, though still the largest single group, seemed proportionately fewer. Teeny-boppers abounded in the crowd. Organized labor took part in greater numbers than before; burly Teamsters acted as marshals around the speakers' platform. In San Francisco as in Washington, the mood of the marchers was discernibly different from the heady optimism of the 1969 Moratorium. Both demonstrations were happily free of violence. But under the spring-picnic good cheer last week was a layer of despair, and a distrust of all the considerable evidence that the Administration is winding down the war. In 1969, said David Ifshin...
...easy propaganda victory for China and one, moreover, that undercut Taiwan. After his views leaked out, Agnew aides denied that there was any disagreement between the Vice President and his boss-though clearly there had been. If Agnew hoped to gain politically, he had badly misread the mood of the nation, which heavily favored Nixon's steps toward detente with China. The conservative Detroit News, for instance, which normally supports Agnew, dismissed his dissent as the "nihilism of a know-nothing nabob...
...rest of the show, it is strangely devoid of a visceral, emotional content. John Lewis's beautiful photograph of a girl seated in a chair on a summer lawn viewed from the darkened interior of a barn greets one with a well-organized and well-conceived balance of mood and effect. I also appreciated Cynthia Saltzman's fine picture of bathers climbing among seaside rocks. A dark, truncated male figure and the granular texture of the rocks gives the photo an engaging sense of imminence...
Speck described a "profound change" of mood on university campuses in the last two years. "Two years ago in a community college, I would get a smattering of hand claps, then a deluge of hostile questions. Now it's hard to get anyone to even present the opposite point of view." Rarely invited to a Southern school two years ago, he has now spoken in every state in the South where even his expressions of support for the Panthers are applauded...