Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week, as Independence Day, 1970, approaches, TIME'S editors feel that the national mood again demands a reappraisal of the meaning of the American flag-the ifs, hows and whys of its present-day symbolism, where it is a unifying and where a divisive force. The country is again at war, not only in Southeast Asia but also against frightening forces within American society...
...American embassy is going through the throes of reorganization and self-doubt. Located in former servants' quarters behind a modest villa occupied by Chargé d'Affaires Lloyd M. Rives, the embassy is in a sullen mood. Columnist Joseph Kraft had written a devastating article about the military attache, Colonel William Pietsch, 47, accusing him of not knowing what is going on. That same weekend, after only a month or so in the country, Pietsch was hastily pulled back to the Pentagon...
Like the earlier Snowdon effort, Love of a Kind is an evocative film essay on human loneliness and eccentricity. There are amusing flashes, as when a bosomy matron hatches a chick in her cleavage, but the general mood is straightforwardly clinical. Fetishism is obviously poignant and, at times, repugnant to Snowdon. Just as his work on aging contained some hospital footage as brutal as any in MASH, he is again deliberately trying to stir his audience. In one vignette, a curmudgeonly lady remarks that upon her death, she wants her 35 dogs "quietly put to sleep." Unfortunately...
...tone of this production is set at the very outset by designer Marsha Eck's pretty picture-frame made of candelabrum-adorned Corinthian pillars, and a foliage-sprouting crosspiece bearing the play's title in flowing letters. The opening mood is buttressed by Conrad Susa's bright E-major fanfares that lead into a section for hidden singers and pastoral woodwinds punctuated by airy strokes on a glockenspiel. And Jane Greenwood, using the late 16th-century as a period, has provided dozens of stunning ruffcollared costumes...
...such mood it is easy to denounce, to find fault, to make unjust accusations, to visit the shortcomings of the world, and of ourselves, on scapegoats- even to light fires or throw stones- for personal relief or for exploitation-easy and totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation, to refuse to become frustrated and angry; to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair; and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long...