Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai: "How do you expect me to act folksy in front of so many people?" [Sept...
When Marshal Tito flew into the Crimea to take a brief "vacation" at Russia's First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's sunny Yalta villa, he did not expect to meet so many old comrades. The emphasis of the eight-day talk in Nikita's parlor and in Yalta's woods and hills was on "comradeship" among the European Communist Parties. A thoughtful Tito, as he flew back to Belgrade one day last week, must have been brooding deeply about how comradely an independent Yugoslav Communist could afford to be. It was not difficult to understand...
...Gospodi!" ("Oh my God!"). Not a handclap broke the hushed silence when he finished. Christoff's Boris is no lunatic, but a sensitive, conscience-stricken man whose terror at his infanticide finally cracks his sanity. The audience loved him. but not quite so much as he seemed to expect...
...comedians is hazardous -and usually brief. But in his rueful, often incoherent way, Buddy is not worried about going stale. For the moment, Liebman's Stanley is just a shiny new toy. Says Buddy, a sad, mad glint lighting up his beady brown eyes: "I don't expect nuttin' from nobody...
...keep the story quiet. Releases were mailed to only a part of the regular mailing list, and there was careful wording to avoid the mention of the word "Negro," and to stress the word "eligibility." Furthermore, the issue was released during the World Series, when it could normally expect little notice on sports pages...