Word: disappointingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...till long beyond what any other period in history has ever considered reasonable. Students want, essentially, those group therapeutic experiences that will help them feel they have at long last come of age." Because providing those experiences is not the chief function of most educational institutions, "colleges must inevitably disappoint the students where their greatest need lies. Campus rebellion seems to offer youth a chance to short-cut the time of empty waiting and prove themselves real adults...
SALZBURG (July 26-Aug. 30) will not disappoint those who like the tried and true, though there will also be productions of some rarely heard operas. Emilio de' Cavalieri's The Representation of Body and Soul (1600), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona (1733), and Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne spell Von Karajan's controversial production of Don Giovanni, and Beethoven's Fidelio under Karl Böhm's baton. The classics-heavy on Mozart, of course-will be given their due by the Vienna Philharmonic...
...follow the path of the first. The result is surprisingly successful, containing two films (by Chabrol and Rouch) whose stature can only be termed monumental, two films (by Douchet and Rohmer) which are honest and successful in a smaller way, and only two films (by Godard and Pollet) which disappoint more than they interest...
...straight mystery the book will probably disappoint most Western readers. Wispy implications substitute for concrete clues. The end is not solution but dissolution. Yet the hand of a novelist of quality is omnipresent. The book is not unlike a Greene entertainment or a serious Simenon; one never feels too far removed from the chill that comes from brushing up against the raincoat tails of true mystery-the real nature of human experience...
...there is can usually be measured only by degree. If the new appointees are in fact conservative, their effect will probably be only to slow legal innovation. It is far from certain that Nixon, even if he tried, could swing the court in the direction he wanted. Justices often disappoint Presidents. "You shoot an arrow into a far-distant future when you appoint a Justice," says Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel. "And not the man himself can tell you what he will think about some of the problems that he will face...