Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last weeks when the Council's committee on student porters returned from five members at the world of brooms and bedspreads, it seemed fair to expect a thorough and valuable report. What finally appeared is nothing of the sort. Instead, it is a catalogs of random observations, useful it at all--only as a goad to simulate the potter program's administrators...
Audience reaction was clearly indicated by its loud applause for the critical statements. When James K. Bouzoukis '52, president of the Harvard Young Progressives, was asked to comment on the reaction of the audience, he said, "I didn't expect if to be quite so hostile...
...Elizabeth to decide whether and when to elevate him to the rank of Prince Consort. Many expect that she will, at the time of her coronation. But even as a mere ducal husband, 30-year-old Philip is bound to play an influential part in the Queen's affairs. In Canada, exercising his easy charm at his wife's side, and managing to maintain a discreetly subordinate position, handsome Philip proved himself a graceful diplomat, an affable salesman of royalty...
...cheerful in the wintry sunshine, the King shot 50 hares, brought down a pigeon with a fine 100-ft. wing shot. That afternoon, pulling off his boots, George VI said contentedly to his shooting companions: "It's been a very good day's sport, gentlemen. I will expect you here at 9 o'clock on Thursday." Footman Daniel Long, who took a cup of cocoa to the King at 11 p.m. and found him in bed reading a sportsman's magazine, was the last person to see the King alive...
...final presentation of the series, on March 6, will present Paul Hindemith's song cycle, "Das Marien Leben." Would it be too much to hope that Mr. Hindemith himself will be there beforehand to tell the audience what to expect...