Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good Harbor Beach and Bass Rocks, Gloucester. Your average, populated North Shore beach. Go up route 128 to Gloucester and ask directions--the roadwork in this town is fairly complicated. Don't expect too much--despite the beautiful beach and rocky shores nearby, there is a lot of trash and teenage waste. Free, if you can park...
Estimates for the number of occupiers ranged from a few hundred to 1000. No one knew quite what to expect. Ira L. Freilicher, a LILCO vice-president, set the tone at a 10 a.m. press conference; if they don't leave, they'll be arrested-we've got a plant to build here and we don't plan to remain occupied." But, he added, "we don't want to see people hurt and we don't intend to get physical if they...
...saints, is not a representative of the class war; the efforts of some historians to see Chardin's servants as emblems of an oppressed proletariat on the eve of the French Revolution are simply beside the point. A sense of social precariousness is the last thing one could expect to meet in a Chardin; indeed, one can hardly imagine him working without the conviction that his way of life was immutable-that there would always be nurses to make beef tea, scullions to bargain for chickens, and governesses to scold the children; that the kitchen skimmers and casseroles...
Women's magazines every June or July publish chattily dire warnings about the "Vacation Blues." These articles are invariably accurate. One does expect too much from vacations and winds up feeling disappointed and even inadequate, as if one had somehow not lived up to the occasion. One does toss through the supposedly sweet idleness with a lump of Calvinist guilt under the mattress; the jauntily go-get-'em "I need some work to do" does conceal, for all its Freudian banality, some sense of unworthiness: you don't deserve the pleasure of a good vacation...
...expect it, though. Because the man who came to be the symbol of drink bourbon/rape women/roll fairies American masculinity was born Marion Morrison, and there was always a suspicion that, deep down, John Wayne wanted to be the Mayor of San Francisco...