Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition to the treaty is a curious mixture of cynicism and conviction. After a period of many setbacks overseas. Americans have been in no mood to accept what seemed to be another reversal. Moreover, the canal is fixed in the popular imagination as a memorable achievement of American vigor and know-how. Why, people asked, should it be given away under any circumstances? There were reasonable answers to such a question, but they were not provided by the superpatriots of the hardcore right wing, who thought they had a sure-fire issue and promptly started paganda barrage has often made...
...splendid spectacle of Sleeping Beauty is the well-wrought setting, the dancing must sustain the mood of enchantment. In Sleeping Beauty this is an unusually tricky business, because little of the ensemble choreography is inherently interesting. The delight of such an old-fashioned approach as Sleeping Beauty's must arise from its sense of harmony and proportion; anything that blurs the clean multiplicity of geometric form betrays either conceptual incoherence, or simply a sloppy...
...humor magazines. They are merely anecdotes, where character is subordinate to the twist ending (which Chekhov was to chop off in his later, masterful works), deriving their charm from the compassionate tone, the airy, economical descriptions, and the flashes of pain in between chuckles. Neil Simon shatters Chekhov's mood, replacing it only with his shrill Broadway yocks, heavy-handedness, and sentimentality; moreover, the inherent Semitism of his phrasing transforms the peasants of Moscow and St. Petersburg into citizens of Anatevka. On Broadway, the superb cast of polished goyem almost made you forget Simon; the Hillel actors make you forget...
...staff of 41 is friendly, cheery, almost ebullient. Their mood helps to assuage the fears. So does the counseling service, which many clinics do not provide...
Whatever the result, the campaign itself has already profoundly changed the political mood in the Philippines. Only a few months ago, riot police would have broken up any attempt to hold a rally against martial law. Now ten such rallies take place every night. Clearly, in agreeing to make a contest of the election at all, Marcos encouraged expectations that the process of restoring democracy to Philippine political life will continue. As Jerry Barican, a law professor and Laban candidate, said last week: "For the first time in five years, we have been able to put our message across...