Word: expect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Alan Hollinghurst does not expect to be understood. In Chicago, the previous stop on a promotional tour of his 2004 novel “The Line of Beauty,” his audience was reduced to six when the book discussion conflicted with a White Sox game. And at the outset, this final stop in Cambridge portends another embarrassing disconnect between author and reader: “a gay British guy and a straight American teenager walk into a café” (Algiers, to be precise) sounds more like a weak joke than the convening of kindred spirits...
...Hypermagic Mountain” is the band’s fourth studio release, and if you need a clue as to what to expect, just look at the album cover...
...Marotta has also made what he refers to as “canned specimens”—leaves, pinecones, and other ephemera from the site sealed in the sort of jars one might expect to hold jam. He plans to do a series of large-scale drawings of the containers in which they take on what he calls “alien” proportions...
...might expect Harvard to be embarrassed by such a former leader. But the man responsible for these undeniably, irrevocably hateful words and actions is still held in high honor by the University. The azure-domed House on Mt. Auburn Street bears his family name; a stately bust of Lowell himself perches to one side of its picturesque courtyard. The Lowell Dining Hall bustles today with countless students its namesake would have undoubtedly labored to keep out—thriving undergraduates who happen to be female, gay, African-American, Jewish, or anything other than members of Lowell?...
...helpful as we’ve thrown parties throughout the semester,” said Max R. Engel, another member of the “Sextet.” Others are more skeptical about whether students will be able to control their party numbers. “What I expect to happen is that party suites and other suites at Yale will try to host their own smaller gatherings for 20 or so people, and whether they intend for it or not, some of those parties will blow up into something bigger,” Dunham said. The only large...