Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having slowed down to round a curve that could have led to recession, the U.S. economy now is on the straightaway and picking up speed. Last week the stock market, which reacts today to what investors expect of tomorrow, climbed to an eleven-month peak...
...might expect a movie with so many creators to suffer from a certain unevenness of style. Not so. Casino Royale is guided through its 131 minutes by the same matchless bad taste. My own suspicion is that the budget, huge as it must have been, somehow ran out before Feldmann had thought to hire a screenwriter. Or maybe he split up what he had three ways, on the theory that invention is additive...
...changes were so demanding that Thomas finally quit listening. Astonished at his independence, Kennedy loyalists attacked Thomas and even now spread cutting stories about him on the cocktail circuit. Bobby Kennedy withdrew a collection of speeches that Harper was scheduled to publish. "If you live in a kitchen, you expect a hot stove," says Thomas philosophically. "But not this hot a stove...
...Connell has commanded the city's Democratic machine, the papers had fallen into the habit of ignoring stories critical of him. When Gene Robb, a longtime Hearst executive in Washington, took over the chain's Times-Union in 1953, O'Connell had no reason to expect any change. Christened "Mr. Nice Guy U.S.A." by Albany staffers, Robb concentrated on the business side of the papers, succeeded in purchasing the Knickerbocker News from the Gannett chain...
According to CORE's national director, Floyd B. McKissick, "Today there are only two kinds of statements a black man can make and expect that the white press will report. First is an attack on another black man calling him an Uncle Tom [a charge McKissick himself has made once or twice] or a fanatic or a black nationalist. The second is a statement that sounds radical, violent, extreme-the verbal equivalent of a riot-Watts put into words...