Word: expectation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under the direction of Boris Goldovsky, famed lecturer and concert planist whose knowledge of operate technique is well known, to his Saturday afternoon radio audiences. Tanglewood is offering a unique chance for young conductors and directors to train. "If a pianist needs a piano to practice, how can one expect an opera director to learn without actors!" explains the cherubic Goldovsky. Equipped as he is with a large group of competent student singers, he is able to give his embryo conductors and directors their necessary workouts...
...Greece. They must take what there is with them. They will find no policy in Greece save a mixture of sloth and violence. They must create the policy. They will get little support from either side, for both are extremists. They must create their own moderates. They must expect dislike, ingratitude, and double-dealing...
...even a labor union much weaker merely by a law, and that you can't decrease government funds and still bear a growing world responsibility, he has helped put on his majority party blinkers that hide almost everything but campaign politics. Meanwhile the world looks on, wondering what to expect from its most powerful component...
...community together," said Mrs. Floyd Jordan, whose husband is director of the school board. "There are two churches. Half goes one way; half goes the other. But everybody meets at the schoolhouse." The Jordans pay about $100 a year in school taxes (Waterloo gets no state support). They expect that their school taxes will be doubled now, but that wasn't what most worried parents: it was the thought of the long journey their children would have to make every day. "They're too little to wait in the dark on a cold country corner," said Mary McKinney...
...across the border, some 130 miles away. Even more important than the millions they spend is San Antonio's position as the gateway to Mexico. Last year, the Laredo customs district handled $333,300,000 worth of U.S. exports most of which passed through San Antonio. San Antonians expect this to increase when the Pan American highway is finished. And they hope to establish a foreign-trade zone, similar to the custom-free zones at New York and New Orleans (TIME, May 12). San Antonio hopes to become the foremost U.S.-Mexican trading post...