Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters do say things which describe them as people. But they are so boxed up with themselves and blunted by past obliviousness, that they expect little sympathy and give none. Each character cherishes a scheme which will somehow give birth to his personality: one brother has a minute plan for decorating the room, the other wants to build a shed out back, and the bum is always about to go down to Sidcup to get the papers that prove who he is. The bum feels called upon to assert his sanity by bursting into prideful indignation at vaguely appropriate moments...
Fieser does not expect the court's decision for several weeks...
White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, middle class voters expect moral standards to rise with prosperity, he said. Wilson attributed their resentment of the federal government to increasing crime which, he said, is a result of higher incomes and more personal freedom...
...report's vagueness. It is, one member said last week, naive to try to define Gen Ed too precisely; after all, the Committee has worked for two years and considered a host of alternatives before reaching the published formulation. But we think it is naive of the Committee to expect a commitment to General Education from the Faculty when it fails to confront important questions of definition upon which the whole Gen Ed program must rest...
...Minutemen are finding various hours when Bernays and Moot expect ways to while away the long cold hours between sunrise and 7 a.m., the MDC to strike because there is little traffic on the Drive and few people besides Minutemen around. Malcolm E. Peaboy, Jr. '50 runs. Sheldon Diets '41 writes poetry...