Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present, most board members are willing to attribute Carter's lapses and his efforts to get so much done so quickly to his newness in the Oval Office. They expect that in time the President will be able to establish a better rapport with his liberal constituents. Greenspan in particular notes that the President's economic conservatism is personal; many members of his Administration are far more liberal than he is, and will put pressure on him to move a bit to the left. If the President does not yield, however, the board meeting indicates that the hottest...
...Government and company served each other with demands for millions of documents to be examined before trial. The Federal Trade Commission's suit against eight major oil companies is flowing about as speedily as heavy motor oil; it was filed four years ago, but lawyers do not expect trial to begin until the early 1980s. That would about match the pace of a Justice Department suit seeking to break up IBM, which took six years to move to trial in a New York courtroom...
...Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conductor, London.) As one would expect, Solti's Bolero is a knockout. But the real interest here is the Debussy. The years have given Solti a welcome relaxation, and he is now getting around to the swirling softness of French musical impressionism. There are no mists in Solti's Debussy. The sky is clear blue over his La Mer, but how shimmering those eddies of string tone, how thundering the waves of brass. Afternoon of a Faun may just be the most sensual on records...
...spacious performance by Giulini would be a winner at almost any time. Right now, however, it comes up against Davis and the Concertgebouw in one of their most electrifying collaborations. The lilting Czech dance rhythms in the Scherzo, for example, have the kind of freedom and spontaneity one would expect from a string quartet...
...After the crab, it was a slow walk-away until near the end, and then we just stomped on them" number six George Aitken said last night. "We weren't sure exactly what to expect--they'd been training hard for the last week. I was sort of disappointed in them; at the end we just went for the margin...