Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrogant sense of superiority. It wasn't new for me. So I sought out people I hardly knew from school to commiserate with. And I insulated myself from other people, waiting for classes to start and for the intellectual challenge that three years of Andover had prepared me to expect...
...people under the tutelage of a graduate student, who will most likely bore you for an hour a week. There are good section eaders, and if you're lucky enough to get one it could best the best experience of your Harvard education. But don't expect to find one easily or frequently...
Matina S. Horner, Radcliffe president does about as well as you might expect in filling her indefinite role. Though no one is entirely sure exactly what she does, she is extremely accessible, considering her high position, and she holds office hours twice a week in the morning for students who want to talk...
...crisis is the sense of deja vu that hangs over the scene. As Pol Pot and Shah Reza Pahlavi were cast by the wayside, to be replaced with governments far worse, if imaginable, than their predecessors, and as Allende fell and his country experienced a similar fate, can Nicaragua expect to 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss," as The Who put despite State Department fears for the worse, is actually comprised mostly of businessmen and U.S.-educated professionals, including only two hard-core leftist guerillas...
...possibility of an "Irangate." The presumption is that the really sensitive secret documents relating to the Shah's dealings with foreigners are in the imperial court archives. We have asked for these documents and I would expect the truly explosive materials would be among them. [There is one] document in which former Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. Ardeshir Zahedi recorded the support of such prominent figures as [Zbigniew] Brzezinski, [Henry] Kissinger, [Nelson] Rockefeller and Senators [Howard] Baker and [Abraham] Ribicoff for the Shah's move in setting up a military government in the fall...