Word: expects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact is that these diverse frames of mind can not possibly by any stretch of the imagination be combined into a coherent personality. If Mr. Bach is correct in asserting that "a social class has status" and that "status consists in class-soliarity and class-feeling," what can you expect from the "class" for which these men in general speak? Where is the solidarity of a group which finds expression in phrases ranging from the impassioned idealism of Mr. Poor, through the mawkish benevolence of Mr. Smith, to the sullen bitterness of Mr. Sweetser, the disgust of Mr. Bach...
...although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all wrapped up into one. I hope to start my next work in pictures in October, if I can find a good story. However, I have no illusions as to my physiognomy and do not expect to have any outstanding success in my acting...
...pair of male twins may expect to live jointly until the age of 46, mixed twins until the age of 48, female twins until the age of 50. Average duration of life for singly born men is 59 years, for singly born women, 63 years
...moderns expect the world to end with a bang, at least in their own day, but the year 1212 seemed to many an appropriate date for Doomsday. Rumor set the exact time: the 12th day of the 12th month. Author Clayton begins his tale early in this ominous year, in romantic, ravaged Provence, where the fat lands of favored abbeys are set like islands in the war-swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power...
...turn to the manifesto, "A Hope for Poetry," published separately in England, but reprinted here together with the longish works, "Transitional Poem," "From Feathers to Iron," and "The Magnetic Mountain." The last is easily the best and it illustrates most nicely the sort of poetry which one may reasonably expect hereafter from Mr. Day Lewis. It is intellectual poetry, for its objectives are in the broadest sense "political." The poet has realized the gravity of the present situation, and he calls upon his contemporaries to arise to a full awareness of it. There must be no trafficking with the dead...