Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more spiritual-minded jammed into an Indian meditation tent. Attitudes toward the music ban varied. "When you alienate so many people, the revolution just picks up steam," said Pat Coons, 23, a camper from Connecticut. Waving to friends on a ski T-bar, a California youth expressed the dominant mood: "This whole thing is playing it lazy-it's a place to pass a smooth couple of days." Nevertheless, in its final days, the festival turned tedious for many as occasional rain and lack of sleep took their toll...
...broiling midday sun, tension mounted in the sweltering plane. The hijackers, at first confident and polite, became edgy and fingered their weapons menacingly. "The girl was doing things like getting water for passengers," recalled one man who was aboard the plane. "But as time passed the hijackers' mood changed and they got angry. We were told to keep quiet and stay in our seats with the safety belts fastened...
...Princess Anne's mood in the U.S. as blue as her royal blood? London's Sunday Mirror last week blamed "the witches of Washington." Wrote Mirrorwoman Paula James: "Everywhere that Anne went, the witches went too-pushing and shoving the Princess and asking questions." In remarkably similar language, another London Sunday paper hissed that Washington's "ladies of the broomstick" harassed Anne. And who are the witches? The unsigned piece in The People meowed: "The group of ill-mannered ragbags who call themselves social columnists...
...might just as easily, and did, start there. The hue and cry for custom clothes, at full pitch only five years ago, has become a whisper in the stores. Says Bonwit Teller President William Fine: "The line-for-line derby is not consistent with the changing times and mood of the consumer." Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's and Alexander's have dropped their import copies. Lord & Taylor plans to continue its reproductions in different fabrics. But the only Manhattan department store still actually duplicating the Paris collections this season is Ohrbach's, and skeptics doubt that...
...family. Consumers have been saving much of the money; their savings rate hit an unusually high 71% of personal income in the second quarter. Businessmen have strong hopes that they will soon start spending it, although recent surveys show that Americans are not in an enthusiastic buying mood because they are troubled about the general state of business. Marcor President Edward Donnell says that his customers have been steadily paying off charge-account debts. He believes that as consumers free themselves of debt, they will become increasingly optimistic and ready to spend more liberally...