Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harding feels that "The black student's insistence on change is an intimation to American as a whole of what it can expect.... Students are now testing the mind of the university." Howard summarizes the demands of black students on white campuses and concludes, "These are demands for very little.... The black community, in its efforts to get into the white mainstream, has never asked for enough." Harding responds, "On black campuses the questions are more fundamental.... The demand is to change the university in every way, in every area. The demands of black students on southern campuses are closer...
James Paul is, as ever, powerful, meticulous, and demanding of his orchestra. And the result is, as one has come to expect, a rendition of Sullivan's most exuberant score that splendidly complements Hammond's direction. The orchestra is slightly overbalanced towards strings and could, perhaps, have been a bit brassier; but the necessity to resort to criticism so minor only underscores the fact of an excellence that has become traditional...
...their Sunday evening walk," says a village elder in Aghia Paraskevi. "On Sunday evening, everybody gets into the streets and walks up and down until they get tired." A young Gravian in shabby black suit and cap explains: "You must remember that this is a mountain village. We still expect our women to behave. No decent woman would be seen smoking, going to the cafe or riding a bicycle. If a girl goes out alone with a boy, it is as if they had gone to bed together. If they see each other during the big Sunday evening promenades...
...extremists want that? Some do. In their view, it would ripen the U.S. for revolution. And yet the university is one of the best possible bases from which sane radicals can expect to mount sizable political support in the U.S. Only the campus is ideally equipped to analyze or attack poverty and pollution, to appeal to the ghetto as well as suburbia. How it should so use those skills is an open question, but if radicals seriously hope to change society, destroying universities is sheer lunacy. The trouble is, of course, that their goal is less reform than romance?coming...
Though these are dangers, it is his feet that a distance runner must normally be most wary of. With step after step on the concrete, one can only expect some reaction in terms of blisters. They crop up on the balls of your feet, heels, and arches; sometimes elsewhere. These must be worried about continually and dressed up in band aids, tape, or the wonderfully helpful Dr. School's Moleskin...