Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hooked on "All My Children" and havea weakness when it comes to keeping secrets, thenBurning Girl is for you. Don't expect insightfulsocial commentary. Don't expect anything. Justjoin the ride: Burning Girl
...strangely, my name crops up where you would never expect to find it. Granted, I never find a Sugi mug or keychain or for that matter, a Sugi anything in the card store aisle with all the name merchandise. (There are about a zillion variations of the name Alissa, though. Alisa, Alysa, Alyssa, etc.) But there's a restaurant near Fort Lee, N.J. with my name. I've never actually been there myself, but a friend handed me an advertising card. "Fine Japanese Cuisine...Sugi features Six Tatami Rooms accommodating up to 20 people." What? There are at least...
Alan Greenspan, we have high expectations for you. This year, when you take the stage at our Commencement exercises, you will join a small and select group of famous and accomplished men and women who have addressed graduating Harvard students. In the past, they have made good use of the privilege: Secretary of State George C. Marshall, when he spoke in 1947, outlined what would become the Marshall Plan. We hope you follow his example. Your words are capable of making mountains move and markets fall, and we expect no less on June...
...succeeds. Students often remind me of my chickens, twisting heads sideways and down to see with single eyes, always facing the light while scratching, never enjoying the stereo view of hawks and owls and eagles. Like my hens cooped north of my barn, students raised in safe, nurturing environments expect little danger from outside let alone within, and when trouble erupts--the automatic feeder capsizes or a gunfight develops outside Holyoke Center--behavior becomes chaotic. Hens explode from hen house, students run in circles or gawk at shooters (although one dropped into the gutter, remembering a VES 107 digression...
...time join the ranks of men--nowadays people I suppose--of good will, what the law still calls the posse comitatus. As I finish a book on this subject now, I find myself marveling at the trust contemporary undergraduates put in vague authority, at the undergraduate willingness to expect authority to be just around the corner when needed. In the absence of authority, when ordinary order goes askew, someone who plays Assassin may be good to have around. A little subtlety, a little of the raptor works wonders when no one has time to call 911, when the cell phone...