Word: chosen
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Conscious of the need for continuity of leadership, the Cabinet named Allon to carry on while a successor is chosen to head the government until Israel's general elections next October. To fill that largely caretaker role, party leaders offered the top job to the one person around whom all Israeli politicians could rally: strongwilled, grandmotherly ex-Foreign Minister Golda Meir...
JUST as David Ben-Gurion has been compared to a modern Moses who led his people to the Promised Land, so Levi Eshkol made a credible Joshua as Ben-Gurion's successor in the premiership of Israel. Chosen in 1963 for what many believed to be a transitional tenure, Eshkol presided over the defeat of Israel's enemies and its coming of age as an industrial state. When he died last week at 73, he left behind a government more unified than at any time in Israel's 21-year history, and one that rules over...
...fact, Paul Zukofsky is the foremost interpreter of contemporary violin music in the U.S. today. At 25, he indeed cares a great deal about success, except that he has chosen to pursue it in the challenging and unpredictable world of new music rather than in the classics. He need not have done so. His flawless technique and singing interpretative style would have been enough to rank him with any of his contemporaries in the safe world of traditional concert life. But while Zukofsky can, and does, play the classics, he sees himself as a latter-day Liszt, introducing the music...
Dashes, asterisks and euphemisms are still the way out chosen by most editors. But "if the image of the word is already formed in the mind of the reader," says John Seigenthaler, editor of the Nashville Tennessean, "you might as well use the word. We have the responsibility of getting over to the reader exactly what was said. We should say what we have to say in this society and say it accurately...
Everything ends badly. William loses all his money, and Poodle, who has walked out on him, comes clinging back. The reader is left with the information that a fool is a fool and a feeling of bafflement about why a skillful author has chosen to pull the wings off this particular literary...