Word: expected
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Filipczak said that both she and her husband do not expect the Pontiff to take any primarily political stands, although she added, "He is conservative on many church issues...
...expect English universities to be either relics of the Empire or temples of modernism. You will be astonished by the extent to which the structures can be penetrated by personal links and informal approaches--in academic applications particularly. You will not be required to fill out things in sextuplicate. You will find chemistry tutors who write musicals on the side, and the head of an Oxford college who also chairs a very popular radio quiz program. The most brilliant intellects will display a modesty bordering on absent-mindedness: someone who says he dabbles in Anglo-Saxon poetry may well turn...
...creation of new regional assemblies with broad local powers, including taxation. Welfare benefits are increased. To encourage public transportation, the Mètro becomes free and the price of gasoline rises to $7.20 a gallon. All high school graduates are required to work for two years before attending university. "Expect less from government and more from yourselves," Rocard exhorts the citizenry in launching what an awed U.S. visitor-California's Jerry Brown-hails as "the New French Revolution...
...poverty of people, especially in the Third World ?hunger, economic exploitation, colonialism?all these signify an opposition to Christ by the powerful." Advocates of the Marxist-influenced "liberation theology" in Latin America thus hope that the Pope will be sympathetic to their program. But knowledgeable observers in Rome expect the opposite. Asked on West German TV last year whether Marxism could be reconciled with Christianity, Wojtyla replied bluntly: "This is a curious question. One cannot be a Christian and a materialist; one cannot be a believer and an atheist...
...East European Communists." In any case, the editor acknowledges, "when this Pope speaks about Communism he will do it with much more authority than past Pontiffs. People will believe his words more than they believed theirs." After three decades of jousting with Communism, John Paul II could hardly expect less...