Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Firing back, Administration officials said they were "amazed" at the report, insisted that they still expect a 1960 budget balance. Evidence so far this year, announced the Treasury Department, indicates that the income estimates in the President's budget are "sound and well justified...
...which were politically rather than economically caused." Strikes have already shut one U.S. smelter and threatened the big mines of Northern Rhodesia. Copper buyers are also hedging the possibility of a strike June 30, when the contract of the International Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers expires. Thus copper experts expect the price to go still higher. But when labor peace is assured, they think it will settle down, because current refinery capacity of upwards of 2,000,000 tons is more than enough, even if business picks up more...
...should be passed and which shouldn't," Shapiro observed. "It would be better to discuss topics such as 'Existentialism and Marxism as an Answer to Man's Alienation in the Modern World'." But, he added sadly, "since most people around here are of capitalistic backgrounds, we can never expect a very large following...
Shepard spoke first about his catcher, John Davis--the team captain and a consistent, wholly dependable veteran. Here is one position, at least, where the varsity can expect to be "solid." But else-where, the picture is far more uncertain...
Though Mr. Miller has expressed admiration for Bertolt Brecht, he is unwilling to follow him into the openly, almost abstractly, political drama. His play centers on three carefully humanized beings--a triangle, in fact. One would not expect adultery to be vitally involved with a matter so superficially asexual as the Salem witch trials, especially in the works of so high-minded an author. But the fact that his hero John Proctor has in times recently past "sweated like a stallion" after the slut who is now crying "Witch!" at his wife, adds to the play's intensity without detracting...