Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dimension of this accomplishment is extraordinary because the French do not generally comprehend American musicals. The last one to open in translation there was Annie Get Your Gun (Annie du Far-Ouest) in 1950, and it flopped. Paris audiences expect the pressed sugars of operetta when they go to light musical theater, and they are never quite up to story lines and sociology in song. When the movie version of The King and I arrived in Paris, the theater was all but empty until the exhibitor cut all the music out of the picture; then audiences in sizable quantity began...
Roman commuters half expect bus drivers to walk out in the middle of the run, and a housewife never knows when she pops a pasta into the oven whether the gas workers will keep the pressure up until it is baked. The agitation for more pay is intense in Italy because wages are lower there than in most of Europe, but European workers in general are demanding increases at a rate that is bringing them slowly but inexorably toward the U.S. scale...
...convinced that Common Market companies have to grow to Common Market size." Seeking Footholds. President de Gaulle encourages French firms to join, and helped unite glassmaking Saint-Gobain with Pechiney, one of France's largest chemical companies. Because of De Gaulle's policy, many French businessmen expect the eventual linkup of the two big privately owned French automakers, Citroën and Peugeot...
...teacher at California's Long Beach State College, he learned to write novels and to write English at the same time. He is far better at both than most U.S. practitioners can ever expect...
...where the cadres are still untrained volunteers. There is a small core of deeply committed students in Boston who now qualify as professional organizers. But on the whole, the civil rights movement in Boston is less advanced than in New York: as the groups here gain strength, we can expect militancy and competition...