Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...texture of Vintage Violence does remind one of Sgt. Pepper. Profound songs are interrupted by silly songs, which then turn out to be not so silly after all. Cale orders his songs in a natural pacing of theme and mood, leading up to the almost obligatory fast brawling rock resolution in the last cut. But in Violence the eclecticism is more pervasive than in Sgt. Pepper. Each song manages to fuse an intricate variety of styles and instruments into conventional but slightly twisted forms, "Cleo," for example, manages to sound like a peculiarly profound perversion of the Archies, Cale also...
...along, there seems to be revolution hatching in Wills' prose. It is odd, then, after 600 pages, to find him in a mood of mild conciliation. "There are signs that history, having made ours a great nation, may now be in the process of unmaking us-unless we can tap some energies for our own renewal." Having damned the Horatio Alger society from the pulpit, Wills ends by taking up a collection for self-improvement...
...QUEBEC separatist movement has been dealt a stunning blow, and Montreal, the eye of the storm, is now gripped with a mood that borders on quiet desperation. The military stalks the streets; the police refuse to disclose arrests or charges; political activity is at a complete standstill; the students have obediently gone back to school. Most American media, of course, have portrayed the crisis as something which affects only a small number of irrelevant people; if you've read your New York Times, then you are aware that the average Canadian is unmoved by the spectacle and continues undisturbed...
Canadian Director Donald Shebib, who made the film on the minute budget of $82,000, has a sense of place that is as certain as his sense of mood and character. The metallic touch of downtown and the dolor of the provinces are both conveyed with an empathy that requires no comment. If there are fewer dramatic crescendos, there are even fewer false notes. If there are crudities of editing, there is a delicate palette of local color. Like the scene from a window, the view is curtailed and cornered, but within the frame it is unblinking and whole...
According to John Corliss, a spokesman for the Kent student government, the mood of the campus was improved by a Civil Liberties Action Day last Friday, when a rally drew 3500 people, "more than we ever had any time last May." Speakers included radical writer