Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When undergraduates returned to their houses a few day ago they had no reason to expect "welcome home" signs, but they had every reason to expect their rooms to be in a livable condition. Now livable, for the average student who passes the academic year in a rather unkempt condition, does not mean gleaming sinks, glowing floors, and shiny new paint. All that is demanded is a clean sink, a usable shower or tub, and a comparatively dust-free bedroom. This is not demanding too much. But the returning undergraduate found it all too easy to carve his initials...
...describes a way of life, or the change which it is undergoing. The voice is personal, the viewpoint biographical, and yet the tone is often that of a Dos Passos report to the nation. Perhaps because of the relaxed tone, perhaps because of the form, the reader does not expect any more of the story than he gets. A mood and perhaps an insight are offered, and whether or not this is enough, it is unquestionably all there is or can be in the nature of the piece...
This, says Bultmann, is the language of mythology, meaningful in New Testament times and derived mainly from Greek Gnosticism and Jewish apocalypticism. To expect moderns to accept it as true is both senseless and impossible-senseless "because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such . . . the cosmology of a pre-scientific age"; and impossible, because "no man can adopt a view of the world by his own volition-it is already determined for him by his place in history." No one believes any more in a local heaven or a local hell...
Russian Gain. ECE also reported sizable increases in production in the Iron Curtain countries-based on their own somewhat questionable statistics. Soviet Russia's three big agricultural areas this year expect to produce 60 million tons of grain v. 36 million tons before Nikita Khrushchev plowed into the virgin lands of Kazakhstan and Siberia...
...completed seven canned five-minute TV spots for a series called The Man from Libertyville, which for three days turned his farm into a studio. When a 20-man film team arrived with a 3,000-lb. dolly, he complained: "That crew is much too large. How do you expect me to act folksy in front of so many people?" (Next day the crew was halved.) Before the cameras without benefit of script, Stevenson pored over mail in his study, chatted with his pretty, pregnant daughter-in-law Nancy and a somber Adlai Jr. ("We don't want...