Word: chosen
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Caria Friedman or New Rochelle, New York, and Harvard Hall, was chosen vice-president of the Class of 1953. Faith Gowen of Dobba Ferry, New York and Barnard Hall, will be secretary; Judith Robison of New York City and Barnard Hall; treasurer; Rachel Mellinger of Springfield, Ohio, and Cabot Hall and Cannaught O'Connell of Jamaica Plain, Class representatives...
...body which cannot govern itself will not long hold the respect of the people who have chosen it to govern the country...
Last week, largely because of his treatise, Dwight Taylor was in Washington, D.C.-one of 40 fledgling scientists chosen from high schools all over the U.S. in the Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s seven-year-old annual "Science Talent Search." To begin with, there had been 16,218 bright young juniors like Dwight, but successive screenings and aptitude tests soon cut the number down to 2,842, then to the 40 who got the trip to the capital...
...rate of 15 to 20 a day) is Sylvia's knack for picking winners before they reach Broadway. Among her selections: Edward, My Son; Life With Mother; Anne of the Thousand Days; Death of a Salesman; Kiss Me, Kate. For this month she has chosen Sidney Kingsley's promising Detective Story. She has also closed a deal giving her members seats for April's South Pacific, whose author-producers, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, are notoriously fussy about what happens to their tickets...
This view, says Eliot, is not much help to culture. Hand-picked "elites" (who is going to pick them? he asks) inevitably become specialists-one-track groups who only get together "like committees." Even if they could be chosen and made to shake down together, how would they carry out the important duty of passing on their cultural values to a succeeding generation...