Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. British Playwright Tom Stoppard has chosen Hamlet's scapegoats to get across his metaphysical message regarding the futility of many lives and the inevitability of death. He is well served~by the adept acting of Brian Murray and John Wood and the dynamic direction of Derek Goldby...
Only days before, the Republicans had seemed to be the chosen victims of an internecine bloodletting; the Democrats, with an incumbent President, appeared to be headed for snug harbor. New Hampshire, with a relished penchant for turning things topsy-turvy, turned them over once again. When the results were in, the G.O.P. had a clear front runner in Richard Nixon and a long-shot challenger in Nelson Rockefeller. The Democrats, by contrast, had on their hands the most dramatic-and potentially explosive-political situation in decades...
...Anti" Votes. On election eve, Johnson Campaign Manager Bernard Boutin declared that anything under 40% of the vote would be a defeat for McCar thy-figuring that he had chosen an unattainable figure. He had not. The following night, an anguished Boutin sat in Johnson's Manchester headquarters, reluctant to put through the telephone call that White House Aide Marvin Watson was waiting for in Washington. The picture would improve, Boutin kept saying, as soon as the results came in from Berlin. McCarthy carried Berlin. By 10:40 p.m., one of the two bars that had been...
Today's arithmetic is also discouraging. Until New Hampshire gave him the courage to dream, McCarthy had not seriously contemplated final victory; and charging into the primaries and convention halls where delegates are to be chosen, Kennedy is grimly aware of what he is up against. Sundry campaign captains recalled to active political service by Kennedy have had phones to ears for days; the feedback has been decidedly mixed. Theodore Sorensen, poring over the political charts, has pointed out the stone walls and blind alleys...
...This is why Bundy put so much emphasis on the need to educate the public to accept a wider role for the government. The people must be like passengers in a bus who give the driver authority to take them by any route he chooses to a chosen destination...