Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway 1776. There is a degradation of intellect, taste and dignity about this musical, which presents history as painted by a sidewalk sketch artist. The Peter Stone book depends on the audience to expect the expectable and to bring along its own worn coloring crayons to fill out the roles...
...regard to your article, "Intelligence: Is There a Racial Difference?" [April 11], if indeed there are significant differences in innate intelligence between contemporary Europeans and Africans, one would expect them to be reflected in the character and relative sophistication of the prehistoric technologies characteristic of Northern Europe and Africa. Even in far more recent periods the difference in complexity between the two regions was minimal...
...gross national product, not counting mere price increases, dropped from an annual rate of 6.4% in last year's first quarter to 2.8% in this year's first quarter. Even so, a FORTUNE survey shows that businessmen are still in an expansionist mood; 77% of those polled expect further increase in sales over the next twelve months. If the leading indicators prove correct, some abrupt changes of mind and manner are in prospect...
...TIME you have been out in Hollywood for one week, you can expect to have heard that everything which was supposed to have happened to Lana Turner in Schwaab's Drugstore a long time ago was actually a big fake. Hollywood is full of cynics who will probably persist in tearing down this legend for years. These same people will say the picture business is closed up as tight as it ever was. They are sure the studio had Miss Turner under contract before they put her in a sweater and on a soda-fountain stool with a straw...
There is no justification for ease of treatment of students who have openly violated the rules of the University which they accepted when they entered, regardless of the rights of the case. I would expect, in all fairness, that discipline cases such as mine--having an unchaperoned meeting of the Harvard Art Association in Sever Hall with a nude model--would be removed from my files and expunged from my record. I trust that you will see to this in light of the leniency of the university in unlawful seizure and trespassing...