Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident turned the tense mood of Salisbury uglier than ever. Middle-aged businessmen talked of taking up arms. A group of whites in a mixed Salisbury bar, fingering the triggers of rifles, ordered blacks who sat beside them to get out. The blacks did not tarry. Rumors circulated that two young whites, after hearing of the massacre, stopped their car and shot the first black man they saw. In Parliament, a backbencher called for martial law and general mobilization, and blustered that Africa was about to see "its first race of really angry white men." Almost certainly there would...
...Israel's mood: The mood of the country is strong. The government has the support of the Israeli people. In parliament we have a very large majority. Of course, there are differences of opinion, but we shall be leaving for Camp David with the full support of a democratic country...
...Minn. (pop. 5,000), just outside the wilderness area, is normally a quiet, friendly town. But lately residents have been in a surly mood. SIERRA CLUB KISS MY AXE and NO SKIDOO NO CANOE, proclaim bumper stickers. A group of snowmobilers who whined into the forbidden area two winters ago and were promptly arrested are now local folk heroes dubbed the Ely Ten. The strife has also been marked by violence: car windows have been broken, tires slashed and 200-year-old trees felled to block access to the canoeing paradise...
...happy-and hot-atmosphere of the chapel, the Cardinals loosened their clerical collars and unbuttoned their mozzettas (episcopal capes). The Pope kept the Cardinals in conclave overnight, and the informal mood continued through dinner that evening as the new Pope took his previously assigned place at the table with the other Cardinals...
Granier-Deferre's talents perfectly suit that spirit. The textures of a period costume, the mood of a grand hotel or a diplomatic corps tennis tournament-these he dreamily recaptures for us in a way that gives the film its strangely innocent, almost wistful quality. How one wishes that the revolutionary politics of our age had actually been conducted with the elegance and civility depicted here. If only history had Granier-Deferre's good taste, and had kept the blood and violence offstage, so that the sound of the gramophone playing tangos had not been drowned...