Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silk & Sake. Just as a "lucky day" was chosen for the engagement, so another "lucky day" will have to be chosen for the marriage. In the meantime, the Emperor and Empress will exchange gifts with the Shodas-a sea bream, the fish of good fortune, as well as sake and silk. Akihito will present his future wife with a jeweled sword to protect her chastity, and the Emperor will bestow on her the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Crown, the highest decoration given a woman in Japan. Finally, the young couple will exchange love poems, written...
Unfortunately, having launched a top-notch series, the sponsor (Lincoln) marred it by ill-chosen sales pitches. In the midst of Beethoven's biggest score was a commercial with slick, whiny music (written by a freelance arranger named Mitch Lee). And immediately after the triumphant choral movement, while the timpani had scarcely stopped vibrating and the listener was still under the spell of the music, an oily announcer's voice heralded a "visit with Mrs. Igor Cassini," who then proceeded, on film, to demonstrate the charms of the new Lincoln Continental...
They urged donations because "giving that counts is always a personal matter;" second, "this is a Drive for causes chosen by the College;" third, "more than a hundred men have been working every night to try to do this once-a-year...
Marek Hlasko, whose bitter novel The Eighth Day of the Week was a product of the temporary Polish thaw, has chosen voluntary exile, and he will not be welcomed back should he return. Polish Communist intellectuals, who have been spared some austerities under the Gomulka regime, are dismayed at the implications of the Pasternak case. "For many of them," the New York Times said, "what counted most was the belief that the whole episode would wind up in a much tougher attitude toward intellectuals...
...college study. But, in the words of Professor Wilbur M. Frohock, chairman of the Romance Languages department, "In advances and in the teaching of elementary languages, Harvard is following and not leading." A recent survey by the Chicago Tribune would seem to back Frohock's statement. Whereas Harvard was chosen as the top college in the country, seven out of its 28 major fields were labelled as "undistinguished." French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Linguistics were five of these...