Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolsheviks are talking big these days. Western specialists do not expect to live to see Russian production overtake the U.S., but after analyzing the figures that Saburov gave out for the first time in Russia's new, sixth Five Year Plan (TIME, Jan. 23), they are becoming increasingly respectful of Soviet economic progress...
Europeans expect few soldiers to understand that domestic politics are realities to be dealt with and not exasperations to be bulldozed out of the way, that troops in the field are useless unless supported by a sound economy at home, that the cold war could be lost by subversion in the factories as well as by defeat at the front. Gruenther not only understands, but often startles ministers by reciting production figures of their own countries that they do not know themselves, amazes politicians by quoting election figures down to the tenth of a percentage point. As a result...
...What it opposes is the domination of education by a single religious ideal or the inculcation of moral precepts. In short, it would disapprove preaching religion while admitting the value of teaching about religion. This is an important distinction that is frequently misunderstood by academicians. Many of them nervously expect teaching about religion always to lapse into preaching. Unfortunately the fear of the one has led to the abandonment of the other in many curriculums...
Opera lovers are still divided on the merits of opera in English. The purists maintain that librettos are usually poor and translations worse--the main thing, they say, is the music. Others feel that the text is also worth understanding, since after all, the composer did expect the audience to know what is happening. As an experiment with opera in English, the New England Opera Company is currently offering on alternate nights this week two Mozart operas, Cosi Fan Tutti and Don Giovanni...
...times earnings at 43½). As for dividends, Ford has announced that it will start off with a first-quarter payment of 60? per share, then consider the rate to be paid for the rest of the year. If dividends are $3 per share in 1956, as many expect, Ford would pay 4.6% on its current market price, about the same as G.M. and slightly more than Chrysler...