Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of a strange and complex yet somehow simple story, a story which begins with the fact that Magsaysay is the prophet and product of a genuine revolution. He personifies and has brought to vivid life the tired cliché that the little people of his country expect him to govern for them. As his critics and intellectual superiors are prone to say, there are many things that he does not know, perhaps including how to run a modern government. But this he does know: the people of his country are his strength...
...million last year. But Perlman is not worried about the passenger deficit. Says he: "The passenger business is like the show window at Saks Fifth Avenue. [By improving the service] you bring in people by the show window." Quiet, modest and diffident as a church usher, Perlman expects to have a free hand in running the Central. Says he firmly: "I would expect to follow the advice of the board in matters like refinancing...
Faculty concern developed rather from communications to each by the administration. Both Markham and Fine received letters from George P. Berry, dean of the Medical School, declaring that "under the circumstances" they could never again expect appointment at Harvard...
...push of a program should be made. A premature vote could kill a program, while unending debate might result in a hopelessly amended and watered-down proposal. He waits through the discussion until he feels that the Faculty is mostly agreeable. This moment might come earlier than Administration critics expect, as this winter when the Advanced Standing proposals cleared the Faculty after only two meetings...
Critic Tynan has made sure that no one could ever say that about him. Pale and lanky ("He has the sort of face you would expect to see reflected in a spoon," says one acquaintance), he often dresses in flowered waistcoats and velvet-lapeled jackets with turned-back Edwardian cuffs, and a mink necktie. "It looks like a raccoon at my jugular," says Tynan. "People ask me, 'Who's your friend?' " At home, with his two-year-old daughter and his American-born wife Elaine Dundy, he sometimes wears leopard-skin pants...