Before I protested for Suharto, but he has changed.' With the exit of Mr Suharto also went the malignant mood gripping a city that only a week before had slid into an orgy of looting, and which on Wednesday saw the biggest military deployment in an Asian capital since the Chinese army blasted its way into Tiananmen Square.
For Lucy Lethbridge in the FT, "Bostridge has written a truly gripping chronicle of the mood of a nation moving unwittingly towards catastrophe".
In his own speech, the cosmopolitan Turgenev unwisely suggested that Pushkin might not quite be a universal genius on the level of Shakespeare, Goethe and Molière, and showed how out of touch he was with the patriotic mood then gripping the country.
Despite the crisis gripping the nation, the mood in the crowd was defiant.
But an uneasy mood gripped Kabul as nightfall came and even this morning, the potential for chaos was clear.
Last week, however, as the last bottles of Dr. McGillicuddy's Schnapps were being polished off, a wistful mood gripped the place.
Anyway, if you are in a pre-apocalyptic mood, gripped by panic and dread, you need to hear what Melbourne DJ/producer Mike Katz does as Harvey Sutherland & Bermuda.
"A carnival mood gripped the jubilant Gituria villagers who erupted in fervent prayers of thanksgiving upon Nyambura's release," said one newspaper account.
It would be wrong, though, to think Angola had been gripped by a mood of universal gloom in the aftermath of Friday's terrorist attack on the Togo team bus.
But when the turmoil gripping Libya was mentioned, Jaffar's mood instantly changed, and he denounced "all Americans as terrorists".
