Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peculiar effect of its Gold Rush origin, or simply all those people up there who've destroyed their brain cells with acid, but the city certainly seems mellow, with a capital laid back. Somehow the country forgot to tell Frisco that the Right-on Sixties had become the New Mood Seventies, so like the Japanese hiding in the jungles fighting world war II to this day, San Francisco bounces anachronistically on, retaining the feeling of community and the optimism that much of the rest of the country lost after Vietnam, Kent State and Nixon. But not even the warm, dark...
...terms of practical politics, Carter could look forward to a stronger position vis-a-vis Congress, which has balked at many of his programs this year. The President's harassed chief of congressional liaison, Frank Moore, happily noted that the "atmosphere, the mood, the way you are received, has changed in the last couple of days." Confirming that viewpoint, the Senate gave Carter a notable victory last week. It voted more heavily than expected, 59 to 39, against recommitting his natural gas bill to a committee that would have killed it. That favorable tally indicates that the measure will...
Buoyed by his success, Carter went out politicking with renewed zest. The mood of the crowds in North and South Carolina was so cordial that the President barely had to mention Camp David. He could count on someone else doing that for him. The most surprising example was a large ad in the Asheville (N.C.) Times that congratulated Carter for the Middle East breakthrough and concluded: "I am proud of you." The ad was paid for by Democrats who are supporting Republican Senator Jesse Helms for re-election even though Carter had come to the state to campaign for Helms...
...payments-it has gone about as far as it can. Transfer payments, such as Social Security and welfare benefits, account for more of the federal budget than anything else, including defense, and probably cannot be increased further, either as a practical or a political matter. The public's mood, as Conable described it, is, "Quit all this talking about equity, and cut my taxes...
...assault on that most basic of institutions, the family. The attack is every bit as relentless, unfair and "tasteless" as Altman's devastation of the military was in M*A*S*H. Although the family is certainly undergoing change and questioning, the director does not have a national mood of disgust (which Viet Nam provided for the earlier picture) to support him. All he has is his own disarming skill as a moviemaker to keep audiences in an accepting mood...