Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Intelligence Committee reportfl but he said he had little doubt which way to decide. Noting that a government report "has no copyright and is the people's property," Schorr maintained that it was his responsibility to make the report available to the public. Too often people in the government expect reporters to help them keep their secrets, he said. They fail to realize that once a reporter knows something, that information ceases to be a secret. He added...
Debbie Solomon, review editor of The Sun, said yesterday Farrell is very articulate and has a national reputation, but "It says something of the state of the English language if the dean of writing doesn't bother to proofread a letter. How do they expect students to treat their own writing...
...liberty, freedom and equality. The right for self-determination became the watch word for the nationalists. Before the end of the 1960's, many countries had become independent, and to many Africans, it was the dawn of a new era. The legislative and executive councils were replaced by parliaments. Expect for southern African and some few countries, most of the leaders were African. Did the African independence mean the death of colonialism and imperialism? The rushing tide of colonialism and imperialism that overflooded the African soil brought immense devastation to the continent and the people. Men and women, young...
...inability to articulate her feelings. The erudite null dismisses Pomme because he mistakes her silence for ignorance, and, lest we make the same error, the movie ends with the damaged and deserted Pomme staring accusingly at the audience. It is a devastating denouement?the kind we expect from heartbreak movies ?but it is not pity for the proverbial jilted heroine that is disturbing. What Goretta forces us to confront at the end of The Lacemaker is the potential for inhumanity within ourselves. ? Frank Rich
After 30 years of reading about UFOs, says Trumbull, audiences have "a very abstract, mind's-eye view of what they expect to see in a flying saucer. It's a very religious kind of thing. For a film maker, it's like trying to show Jesus Christ or God. It's very hard to meet people's expectations...