Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pentagon Correspondent Bruce Nelan, who filed thousands of words for the story written by Associate Editor Burton Pines, got a quite different impression of the mood of the Navy when he attended a high-ranking strategy forum at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Says Nelan: "The atmosphere was awash in gloom and doom. The admirals could not understand why America's seapower was, as they saw it, being cut back to the danger point. They were puzzled as much as angry, feeling misunderstood and ill-used...
Today's vastly improved mood is the result of the determination of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations from 1970 to '74, to bring the life of young sailors into line with that of their civilian contemporaries. He radically changed the service's restrictive dress code by permitting modish haircuts, beards and sideburns and eliminating the requirement for frequent uniform changes during the day. (This does not apply, however, to the lowly inductee, whose hair is still cropped when he enters bootcamp.) Zumwalt also revised the duty rotation system and the fleet's operating schedules...
...Marriage of Figaro, at least as presented in this version, is a little less cutesy. To begin with, there's a major shift in mood: Figaro is not straight comedy, which The Barber certainly is. Instead, it is a fairly cynical look at marriage (the four-years-later episode of Count Almaviva and Rosina's romance), the master-servant relationship (the Count repays Figaro's first act help by demanding the droit du signeur of Figaro's bride), all made more complicated than necessary by intrigues and mishaps. The cast manages generally to overcome the mood-change by keeping...
...Leonardo's water drawings? Probably, for although Monet's fellow impressionists also predicated their images on the moment, none of them was able to go so far in the direction of displaying reality as a collection of tiny, discrete stillnesses. Monet constructed a unified light, meaning and mood out of an accumulation of specific fragments, each the size of a brush mark. The unitary truth emerges from an infinity of facets...
...mystical way to understand the universe's infiniteness. The vogis assigned each raga (a musical composition based on a scale) to a time of day, year and mood. To many Western listeners, the music seems monotonous because its patterns and melodies change so subtly. Unlike Western music, the purpose is to express one constant mood...