Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowell was chosen for the honor, Wilson Frisbee Team chairman Owen P. Curtis explained, "because we figured the nature of the guys there is such that they wouldn't let something like this pass...
...largely by feeding on itself: it manufactured radio and TV sets, then created a market for them by beaming programs over its NBC network subsidiary. "The General," 77 and ailing, is still board chairman, but RCA is now run by his son, President Robert W. Sarnoff, 50, who has chosen to move the firm into other fields. The younger Sarnoff, who has already engineered RCA's long-reach acquisitions of Hertz Corp. and the publishing firm of Random House, believes that "it is desirable to broaden our base" even more...
This poem was chosen because it deals with Berryman's preoccupations with poetry and survival, although it lacks his characteristic humor...
...Smith is a black militant who still digs Stokely Carmichael but has discarded revolution as impractical. "There are greater forces than violence and confrontation," he says. Smith's chosen instrument was Operation Bootstrap (see BUSINESS), a black-owned, black-managed self-help corporation that now runs two African-style dress shops, one in a white suburb, plus a clothing factory, a gas station, a printing company, and a school for pride, black culture and job training. 1 Smith, the greatest source for pride is that Bootstrap was born and now lives without handouts from a Government agency. Says...
...strength in the acting, it is Prince's staging that dominates Zorba. I am convinced that this man knows more about building a musical scene than anyone else around. In this show he has chosen to frame the action with music, so that at times one is hardly conscious songs are beginning and ending. For this purpose he keeps a chorus of sorts on stage nearly the whole time. The singers and dancers drift in and out of the action or often just sit on the high platforms that are a permanent fixture upstage. Leading this group is Lorraine Serabian...