Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other speakers have not yet been chosen, Edelman said, but the program committee has already picked topics for discussion. Among those decided upon are "The Welfare State" for the March 21 meeting, and "As Others See Us," set for April...
Most of the selections have been chosen so that they do not duplicate commercial recordings. The bass aria, "O ruddier than the cherry," is an exception. Obviously it has been included for the very good reason that Paul Tibbetts is singing it, but it is one of the dullest pieces the Handel ever wrote. Marguerite Willauer has much better material for her fine soprano voice in "As when the dove laments her love" and "Heart, the seat of soft delight...
...appalled by the superficial character of "A Thursday in November." Can't our reasons for thanks be chosen on a higher spiritual level before being put into the form of a Litany? And why must democracy and freedom always be equated with the ends of civilization and man? This can only be so in a pagan society. For the Christian religion, upon which Western civilization is, after all, based, these concepts must forever be means and not ends...
After a fourth season of sagging attendance and mounting deficits in both leagues, National League club owners deputized thick-set League Commissioner Bert Bell to deal secretly with Manhattan Attorney J. Arthur Friedlund, the chosen negotiator of the All-America Conference. In two days & nights of almost continuous bargaining in Philadelphia's Racquet Club, the two men reached agreement...
...hint of Christmas was the sharp red of a couple of poinsettias in the boy's hand. But the red, contrasted with the dirty gloom of the rest of the picture, was enough; it made Journey one of the most moving canvases in the show. Edmund Lewandowski had chosen the Three Kings for a subject, and turned the Magi into a composite playing card. The result was not as handsome as real playing cards, but it had style and force...