Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flaws of any intelligence test is that it does not, and cannot, take into account the mood of the person whose intellect is being evaluated. Educational psychologists have long known that attitude can have a pronounced effect on the score. The same person, retested, may raise or lower his IQ by as many as 20 points depending on how he feels-challenged, anxious, bored. Even his feelings toward the person giving the test can be a factor. In the case of the black student, writes British Psychologist Peter Watson in New Society magazine, this variation is of great significance...
...urbanites were going through just the sort of encounter that Gould has faced in the burst of films ?from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice to this summer's Getting Straight and Move?that have raised him to stardom in less than a year. There were even elements of this mood in M*A*S*H, the battlefront comedy that has become the most talked-about movie of 1970. Gould always seems to be caught up in social ?and sexual?tension. He embodies an inner need to be hip at the risk of seeming silly, the struggle not to give...
Forgotten People. The chances of a strike are heightened by a mood of simmering discontent among the nation's blue-collar workers, who feel themselves victimized by inflation, trapped in unpleasant jobs and neglected by the rest of the U.S. "These men are on a treadmill, chasing the illusion of higher living standards," Assistant Labor Secretary Jerome Rosow recently observed in a much remarked study. "They feel like 'forgotten people.'" Blue-collar workers in many states, Rosow notes, often have incomes only a notch above welfare payments, and they resent being taxed to pay for special benefits...
Testifying recently before a congressional committee, United Steelworkers President I.W. Abel summed up the prevailing feeling of the workers: "It's a mood of great uncertainty, of great frustration coupled with anger, a feeling of some helplessness in the face of what has been happening, a hesitancy about what lies in store for the future." That mood has been reflected in the new militance of labor. Rank-and-file members this year have rejected one contract in eight negotiated by union leaders. And it has not been lost on union members that Chicago Teamsters Local 705, by refusing last...
...aural world reaches Mandy only faintly with help of a hearing aid. In addition, she has a congenital brain dysfunction. It is the probable cause of the erratic swings in behavior and mood that West writes about so well. As a toddler, she painted walls, desks and her own face with pigments blended from inks, instant coffee and Ajax. She would unexplainably put her head through a windowpane. She also plays rough, suggesting to her father "a commando course supervised by an overwhelming midget," a "Gotterdammerung written in mud, rain, and your own bland...