Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he left the team this fall during the season's first week, Mack's departure was carried out with the dignity and grace that his friends have come to expect of him. He announced at a team gathering that he was leaving because he "had other things to check out," activities that the rigid schedule of a competitive swimmer doesn't allow time...
...result is a book that's nearly as indescribable as its subject. Flipping through its pages (and these photographs don't look as though they expect to stand still), you have to keep reminding yourself that you're not looking at stray limbs tooled soft as putty and clumped together like topological pretzels, but at human beings with only two arms, two legs, and one torso apiece...
What is meant by sense of unity is not, of course, total unity of opinion. This would be impossible to expect between two people, let alone among Harvard students as a group. The key is that students who do agree that there is a problem in a particular area or that a particular issue ought to be raised and dealt with, must find each other. The benefits of mutual support and encouragement, synthesis of ideas, and organization and pooling of resources and energy would be great. Perhaps students who did find each other in such a manner would be able...
...failed to try hard enough, nor that the concept of team investigation was somehow ineffective or sloppy. Rather, the problem is that the forces that led to Don Bolles's death in the first place continue to prevent necessary reforms in Arizona. The state's natives knew what to expect from the beginning. "These Easterners," exclaimed one Arizonan with exasperation, "they all come out here and flap their wings and think everything is going to change overnight. Well, it hasn't. They pack their bags and leave, and everything stays just the same." There have been reforms, of course...
...performers for the most part (Susan Sarandon as the mother of the king-to-be is an exception) fail to convince us that their Romany roots are more than makeup deep. The folk ceremonies are routinely lusty, the dark familial passions are what we have come to expect in movies about subcultural persistence...