Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contrasts. Though the Nixon staff claimed that Chicago had been chosen long ago for the campaign kickoff, the contrast between Republican calm and Democratic storm was obvious. About the only reminder of the previous week's violence was the elaborate, often sarcastic courtesy of the police toward reporters. When a TIME reporter asked if he could cross a police barricade, a cop gave a fairly typical answer: "Of course, sir. Anything you want, sir. We're here to serve...
...Having chosen the role of soother and persuader, he is puzzled nonetheless when people do not identify him with the creative, combative politician of yesteryear. After four years as Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, his public persona is that of a subordinate and apologist. It has become increasingly difficult to think of him in such terms as leader, fighter, innovator?which are precisely the terms in which he thinks of himself. He argues these days, urgently and almost desperately, that he is too his own man; that he can too be a strong, forward-looking President. Perhaps. But in order...
...terms in the House and three in the Senate have made Monroney a fixture, but one not really plugged into the sockets of power. A populist liberal of impeccable reputation, Monroney has chosen to be an expert rather than a force. His efforts to reorganize Congress have largely gone by the board. He is chairman of the Senate's Post Of fice and Civil Service Committee and is known as "Mr. Aviation" because of his continued-and unheeded-warn ings about America's crowded sky. Intelligent and hardworking, he is the quiet antithesis of Oklahoma's flamboyant...
...form of complex characterization and ironic statement: it is Worthington's recurring point that life is drift as much as design. In a wry put-on, Cozzens may have intended'to mock that notion. But if that is the case, the novel still fails, because Cozzens has chosen to write against the grain of his own special talent-that of a meticulous and compulsive craftsman-which demands the imposition of a precise design. The anti-novel requires bright irreverence, an almost exuberant sense of the absurd. It is just not-and it is easy to imagine Cozzens wincing...
...Cordice's chosen specialty was thoracic surgery. No U.S. school was willing to train him, and he had to go to Paris. That got him into Kings County (Brooklyn) Hospital for two years, and later he was named chief of both thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital. So far, so good-or at least, not bad. But then Columbia's P. & S. took over Harlem, in a well-meant but abortive attempt by the city to raise ghetto-hospital standards. Columbia's white administrators did not bother to consult or even notify Dr. Cordice. They simply...