Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Carolina, another spokesman expressed the same feeling. He said that Negro teachers expect the loss "of a few jobs here and there, perhaps wholesale in some places. Most of us know it is a calculated risk that we have to take for the sake of the next generation...
...foes of Douglas McKay are due for a disappointment if they really expect any basic change in Interior Department policy. Appointee Seaton announced: "I certainly expect to carry out the Eisenhower-McKay power policy." He asked Davis, a fellow Nebraskan of somewhat more conservative leanings, to stay on as Under Secretary. Although Davis had been a leading candidate for the secretaryship (with 14 Western G.O.P. Senators and a solid phalanx of top Nebraska Republicans behind him), he agreed to stay on and his supporters accepted the situation without public protest...
Since that time, authorities here, as at most other colleges in the nation, have learned simply to expect the worst each June when a new group of dignified, responsible, and highly educated adults returns to pay homage to its Alma Mater...
...realistic" regularity of appearance, as well as (we feel) its "courage," to publish our acceptance of Mr. Raditsa's challenge, and our denial of the blatant misrepresentation of fact and irresponsible purveying of slander. (Yes, we say, irresponsible; we understand the "clubbie" who is "out to get Raditsa," and expect the reaction of an Eliot House tutor: "Poor Leo. I wonder what we did wrong.") Perhaps, Mr. Raditsa asks for this reaction in his introduction (as much as any individual can); we say that it is irrelevant, that the book has to be read in spite of this, that...
Simone-Like Heroine. Readers of The Mandarins need not expect a good story or flashy writing. But anyone wanting to know what interesting people like Sartre, Novelist Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler and others were thinking at war's end about France, Russia, the U.S., Communism and life generally will find the answers here in abundance. Her setting is Paris just after the liberation, her characters writers and intellectuals who live to talk and make love as though they were being put through their paces by an observant Kinsey. They also say just what Author de Beauvoir wants them...