It contained radically different undercurrents: among the reformers – essential to Mikhail Gorbachev's eventual programme of perestroika – was Fedor Burlatsky, who has died aged 87.
Still, there was a definite undercurrent of worry, a certain anxiety that sprang as much from fear as disbelief.
"But there's a strong undercurrent of worry because of those soldiers who have left".
But these moments of peace belie an undercurrent of worry: One countryside reveler uses leisure time to practice hurling fake grenades in the forest.
And the number of deans charged with enforcing discipline more than doubled, to 14 from 6. Yet with all the excitement about change for the better, an undercurrent of worry still cut through the classrooms.
Beneath the show-must-go-on euphoria that came with the end of the strike was a definite undercurrent of worry: How much damage had the strike done to Broadway?
On this relationship, Beaver feels that "Bobby's concerned about them both, with Dean's sense of self, but there's a sort of undercurrent of worry about Sam.
An undercurrent of worry, however, ran through the celebratory mood, owing to the ascension of Donald Trump in the presidential race and the Republican lock on both houses of Congress and soon, the U.S. Supreme Court.
Helton highlighted a different kind of worry.
Amid much hoopla surrounding the 1970s construction of Metrorail — heralded as a marvelous creation that would usher the capital area into the future, advancing the region economically and socially — there was an undercurrent of worries.
They may be days away from elimination, and another off-season of uncertainty, and that, too, will lend a different undercurrent to the evening.
