Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tasks interrupted by the Suez invasion was President Nasser's widely publicized promise to provide his regime with a popularly chosen Parliament. Nasser himself often told American visitors, in the friendly old days, that he knew his regime was too narrowly based, and that if he could keep out the corrupt and reactionary old politicians, he would like to revive democracy in Egypt. In fact, his narrow little junta of officers have neither the competence, the imagination or the time to administer Egypt's economy; in their distrust of everything past and pro-Western, they have shut themselves...
Harold Pratt '59, of Winthrop House and Oyster Bay, N.Y., was chosen assistant varsity manager, while William Garrison '59, of Dunster House and Tacoma, Wash., will manage the J.V.'s. John Reidy '60, of Massachusetts Hall and Brookline, won the freshman managerial competition...
...could Braque's impeccable richness be better presented than in four still-lives chosen by the Pulitzers. Representing three especially important periods, they fully justify the tribute accorded Braque by the painter of Woman in Blue: "He never sings...
...began collecting as a Harvard undergraduate when he acquired Modigliani's Elvira Resting at a Table, is entitled, after twenty years, to some mistakes. Villon's portrait of the collector and Tamayo's study of Mrs. Pulitzer, tressingly poor examples of the work of gifted commissioned rather than chosen, are both discollector and Tamayo's study of Mrs. Pulitzer, tressingly poor examples of the work of gifted commissioned rather than chosen, are both dispainters. Andre Beaudin's The Steeplechase, almost commercial in its obvious mannerisms, seems enigmatically out of place...
Like a somewhat expanded "Annals of Crime" in the New Yorker magazine, They Hanged My Saintly Billy explores in great detail the circumstances surrounding a spectacular criminal career. Mr. Graves has chosen the story of Dr. William Palmer, who was accused of doing in fourteen people, the majority by poison, and who was publicly hanged in 1856 after being convicted of poisoning John Parsons Cook, a fellow aficionado of horse-racing...