Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came to obscure what had actually happened. Achievements emasculated blunders. Washington became Camelot. Myth replaced reality. The nation craved a hero and Kennedy fit the bill. When Dave Powers said that "Being with Jack Kennedy in the White House was like dying and going to heaven," he captured the mood of the country at that time. It had all seemed so exciting, so different from the seamier Johnson and Nixon years. Kennedy had indeed been the best and the brightest...
Atiyeh, the son of Syrian immigrants, will be the nation's first Governor of Arab descent. In a vigorous grass-roots campaign, he traveled 40,000 miles, relentlessly calling for tax relief for homeowners. Straub apparently misread the antitax mood until very late in the campaign. Said Atiyeh after his victory: "I think the phrase from the movie Network covers what I've been hearing during this campaign: 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more...
Voters generally were in no mood to bet on gambling. New Jersey refused to permit wagering on jai alai. Virginia nixed parimutuel betting on horse races, and Florida balked at allowing casinos along Miami Beach. More permissive was California's attitude toward smoking. Partly swayed by a campaign of $5.3 million by tobacco companies. Californians solidly rejected Proposition 5, which would have banned smoking in most public places. In Montana the drinking age was raised from 18 to 19, and in Michigan it jumped from...
...White House even now is making plans to invite the new/old Congress down for orange juice and Coke. The mood may portend that the President and Congress are coming closer, though that should not for a minute hold out bright hopes for an easy time in Government. Democracy remains ornery...
Many other conditions have helped to reduce the parties' circumstances. The relentless attention of pollsters to the public mood means that candidates and officeholders receive their instructions directly from the people, rather than through the party apparatus. Impresarios of media-like White House Adviser Gerald Rafshoon-orchestrate campaigns without the party's help or intervention...