Word: expectation
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...Soviets skirmish with the Chinese over boundaries, the Vietnamese annihilate a Communist regime in Cambodia, and now the Chinese attack the Vietnamese in retaliation for the Cambodian war [Feb. 26]. How can the various Communists expect the rest of us to believe that their type of government represents the apex of sociopolitical evolution when they can't tolerate each other...
...events of the current Sino-Vietnamese conflict follow historical precedent, we should expect the Chinese to punish the Vietnamese, the Russians to punish the Chinese, and the Americans to punish themselves...
...rather, Mr. President, to express my surprise that a university dedicated, in your words, to a "continuing critique of our values, our behavior, our institutions, and our social practices" commits so little of its resources to study and instruction on this question. The Economics Department, where one might logically expect to find this continuing critique, is rather more committed to making capitalism work smoothly that to subjecting it to basic critical evaluation. The economics of institutional racism, imperialism, and much else that might go into such a critique figure as little in the economics curriculum as you would have them...
Producing opera at the college level takes guts, and it would be patently unfair to expect professional quality singing and playing from a group like Lowell House Opera. What's frustrating about this Fledermaus, though, is that the singing is the strongest part of the show. If the orchestra were better prepared and the director had replaced Strauss's Vienna coherently, Lowell's Fledermaus could please everyone. As it stands, the program lists the show's time-setting as "uncertain"--a word you might better apply to the whole affair...
Located inside the street entrance to the church, the Nameless offers a wide variety of local talent, replete with guitars, harmonicas, stalwart fans, you name it. One a typical night you can expect to catch a lot of guitar music accompanied by male or female vocalists, or vice-versa. Or maybe a group. Or a commedian if you're very lucky. Most of the music is original, and sometimes it's good enough to make you want to trash your old Joni Mitchell albums. And if you don't like the first act, stick around, there are seven sets...