Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION 1. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (1 last week) 2. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (3) 3. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (5) 4. Topaz, Uris (2) 5. The Chosen, Potok (4) 6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (7) 7. Christy, Marshall (6) 8. The Arrangement, Kazan (9) 9. The Manor, Singer 10. A Night of Watching, Arnold...
Provincial Candidates. Elsewhere, prospective bishops are chosen by the hierarchy in proceedings whose secrecy would do credit to the CIA. Once every two years, the bishops of a province-a group of dioceses headed by an archbishop-meet to discuss the qualifications of priests who should be considered for advancement. The names of the top candidates are submitted to the Vatican's apostolic delegate or papal nuncio, who then passes them on to Rome's Sacred Consistorial Congregation after making his own investigation of their qualities. To fill smaller sees, the Pope usually accepts one of the province...
Inside Bach. If any message surfaces from Columbia's far-out stockpile, it is simply that today's musical world spins through healthy confusion. While some composers have chosen to cut themselves off from the familiar sounds of instruments in favor of microphones and amplifiers, others-Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller and the Russian Edison Denisov-find within orchestral resources the means for flying just as high. Denisov, the first composer from the recently surfaced Russian avant-garde to find his way to records, builds his six-minute Crescendo e Diminuendo by offering the conductor a series of short...
Prince Erie boasts some of the finest dialog heard on a stage in-recent years. Mayer's speeches combine formal rhythms and precise images with deliberately chosen colloquialisms and small mistakes in grammar, both creating characterization and recreating the formal journalistic idiom of the period. Reporting the market crash, the Heraldreporter ends his news story with, "Threats against Fisk are freely indulged in." Fisk's early employer Daniel Drew prays, "Deliver me from the House of the Harlot, Lord, and from the rest of this here lewd company who don't give two bits for Thy commandments...
...Council meaningful at last. But this maneuver has precisely the opposite effect. Washington knows that a debate in the Security Council would offer this country a better opportunity to answer the Vietcong than in General Assembly discussions. But this U.S. stand merely illuminates the real reason President Johnson has chosen to ignore and stifle the Vietcong initiative to bring the war before the Assembly...