Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ludicrous to expect that black Africans should willingly accept a hostile, racially alien nation on their continent, regardless of "historic rights." After all, would we tolerate such an entity in our own midst? In light of our own history of racial repression, not to mention the attempted eradication of native Americans and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, I would have to think...
Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies (Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conductor, Deutsche Grammophon; 8 LPs). His third recording of the Beethoven symphonies reaffirms the impression that Karajan, 69, is a man surcharged with new energy, and ever more confident of his powers. As one would expect from this conductor, there is no arbitrary tampering with tempos, or other excesses marching under the banner of personal insight. Karajan accepts the boundary lines and then plays the game for all he is worth. His Eroica, for example, is a shade faster than before, his Fourth broader, darker, more ruminative. But what really sets...
...causality, Toffler proferred, may be nothing more than an unprovable idea that would quite predictably emanate from any highly industrial, interdependent society victimized by a time fetish. The linear consumption of time--which gave rise to society's belief in causality--is just the type of idea one would expect a society run by clocks to adopt. Modern society, Toffler contends, is quite narrow-minded in its insistence that every cause have an effect. And being the cocky, obstinate creatures we are, we cannot conceive of time being cyclical--that is, a cause having an effect which could, in turn...
Cleary: Well said. And what about the rest of the ECAC? What other teams do you expect to cause trouble...
Cleary: That many. How much difficulty do you expect from Brown, who we play this Saturday...