Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Federal agents arrest 150,000 student radic-libs and place them in detention centers. Boston Globe runs series on "The New Quiet Mood on College Campuses...
Sweating Them. Intensive but apparently unproductive conferences between Senators, presidential aides and lobbyists were under way all week in an effort to break the logjam. The mood was not always one of cooperation. A State Department official called a top-ranking Democratic leadership aide one night to find out if an important measure was about to come up for a vote. The aide, who knew the vote had been put off, refused to take the call. "We're sweating them," he said...
Giving the vote to women 50 years ago changed no election patterns, because women voted as variously as men. Psephologists do not expect 18-to 20-year-olds to vote as a bloc either; and indeed, given the current student mood of seeming apathy, they may not vote in large numbers...
Later in the week, as he walked through Lafayette Park with TIME'S Hugh Sidey, Moynihan talked about the Administration mood that in part prompted his warm valedictory: "Look what they have been told: liberals get more women than they do, make more money, are smarter, are better looking. Their art is the best, their books are better. These fellows here are told that constantly, and what's worse, they have begun to believe...
...much greater degree than in most years, the state of the economy will be determined by the mood of the people. Compared with 1970, it should be a fairly good year for business. Whether it will be better than that will depend on what the President does, more through deeds than words, to inspire the confidence of the American businessman and consumer...