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Word: chosen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misfortune comes from something deeper. It comes from myself," Lefranc retorts. But it is the last in a long series of his empty boasts. In the words of Maurice just before he is killed, "... Green Eyes is the one who's got to suffer... The one who's been chosen." Lefranc cannot choose himself. Deathwatch is a criminal scripture, preaching damnanation not by bad works but by Divine (or Satanic) Election...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Genet's Deathwatch in New York | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

Topic for the debate, which was proposed by the Cambridge Union, will be chosen by the two organizations later in the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters to Compete In Trans-Atlantic Bout | 11/20/1958 | See Source »

Functioning both as stage director and conductor, Goldovsky has chosen effective blocking and byplay, and keeps the performance moving along at a good pace. His beat is clear and his cueing exemplary (though he ought to curtail his Toscaninian grunting and humming). Nevertheless, the orchestral playing is far from polished. The company can doubtless not afford a sufficient number of orchestral rehearsals; the players are quickly recruited more or less at random from the Union local and thus cannot possibly achieve a nuanced and precise ensemble. I fear nothing can be done about this shortcoming...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Count Ory | 11/20/1958 | See Source »

...persisted, but plans to reform it are a top priority item with the new Government. Pakistan's population is growing currently at a rate slower than that of the U.S.A. and many other developed countries. Karachi is an over-crowded city because, apart from the fact that it was chosen as the seat of central government on securing independence, it has received and is still receiving a large influx of refugees from India. As regards the Kashmir issue, Mr. Beecher, who would not have President Mohammed Ayub Khan "intransigent," himself appears to support the intransigence of those who have successfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

...Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A ho-ho-down, partly because Ernie Ford has chosen to dance with Cliff Arquette, the rustic, marble-mouthed caller of many a Jack Paar square dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: From Hollywood | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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