Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side of the world, attitudes about the Gromyko-Reagan meeting were less upbeat. Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof was startled by a question put to him as he went about his reporting last week. "A middle-aged Muscovite asked me if it was true that Reagan 'is like Hitler.' When I told her that this image was completely erroneous, she replied, 'But that is what our television commentators tell us.' " For the cover image, Photographer Brian Alpert took a rare picture of Gromyko inside the Soviet mission in New York City, a building that...
...even probably indicate a major turn-around in Soviet attitudes toward the U.S. Indeed, a Western diplomat in Moscow cautioned that "it is probably a mistake to build a universal field theory" around the outcome of this week's meeting, whatever it turns out to be. But an upbeat response would at least indicate that the Soviets have decided to abandon their present policy of icy silence. Said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, a leading advocate of a somewhat more flexible U.S. negotiating stance: "I would argue at this stage that the Soviet Union recognizes that it must...
...Watergate," he says, "but I think we are witnessing a fundamental shift toward more positive attitudes about American institutions." Two-thirds of the respondents in a TIME-Yankelovich survey last month felt that things were going "very well" or "fairly well" in the U.S. It was the most upbeat reading since the Carter honeymoon...
...upbeat situation, I think it's a mystical experience that cannot be defined." In Pontiac, Mich., black Bookkeeper Mary Williams, 55, lives in a neat, integrated neighborhood. She is not poor, but neither is she glad about the state of the nation. A New York Times survey last fall found that only 35% of blacks said they were "very patriotic," compared with 56% of whites. In Fairmont, W. Va., Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retton's home town, people are brimming with pride, of course. Yet unemployment is running at 10%, and as Mayor Gregory Hinton says, "Patriotism does...
Open with the upbeat scene of Ronald Reagan standing tall in bright California sunshine before almost 50,000 true believers. Balloons float, flags wave, optimism abounds. "You ain't seen nothing yet," declares the President. "Four more years!" the crowd roars. "You talked me into it!" chortles Reagan, pink cheeks glowing, head bobbing happily...