Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the President's advisers do not expect the trip to produce much immediately in terms of tangible results, TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, who accompanied Carter abroad, reports: "The trip could create a new mood in one country, a new understanding in another, a little more friendship here, a little less hostility there, a greater chance for long-range solutions to some difficult problems, a smaller chance for grave miscalculations of someone else's intentions...
...shoppers buy so much? Retailers have a simple explanation: rising personal incomes and a general feeling that their jobs are secure have put consumers in a happy mood. That impression conflicts with polls that show much doubt and worry about the state of business, but retailers have the sales figures on their side. Says Larry Straus, vice president of Colorado's May D & F stores: "People have more confidence in the economy and are willing to spend their money. Inflation doesn't seem to bother people as much." Adds Kaufmann's Silver: "I got the feeling people...
...classic work On Aggression, Nobel Laureate Konrad Lorenz argued that man is the only species that regularly kills its own kind. This concept, which contrasted the order and restraint in the animal world with the chaotic aggressiveness of man. reflected the mood of the time: the shadow-of-the-Bomb pessimism of the '50s and early '60s. But Lorenz was wrong; since 1963, when his book was published, naturalists have identified dozens of species that kill their own, including lions, hippos, bears, wolves, hyenas, herring gulls and more than 15 types of primates other than...
...long will the nation's gentler, easier mood last? Few people are searching for the answer. Says Atlanta Assistant Store Manager Norbert Stanislav: "There is always some dark presence around the corner if you look for it, but nobody's looking for it." Hail tranquillity...
...production is the work of two Austrians, Stage Director Otto Schenk and Set Designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen. Schenk treated the story simply and with his designer's help has placed it against handsome, mood-filled back drops. The inside of Venus' home, for example, is a steadily shifting vision of pools, waterfalls, trysting places and writhing bodies. Much of its look is achieved with rear projections on a curved, cyclorama-type screen. The dissolution of Venusberg as Tannhäuser is expelled is both swift and wizardry...