Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report maintained that too much authority has been given to the cadets to supervise themselves, while the academy's staff has reneged on its responsibility. More emphasis, the report continued, should be placed on "high quality" education rather than on military training. The superintendent should be chosen for his educational as well as his military skills and should serve at least five years. Said Borman after the report was issued: "We should try to prevent a Fort Benning-on-the-Hudson attitude from creeping into the academy-which it already...
Poised and principled member of myriad commissions and civic groups . . . Chosen by President Lyndon Johnson as Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1965-67, served as an alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly . . . Chairman of Credentials Committee for 1972 Democratic National Convention; criticized by some at the time as being too much of an "Old Guard" Democrat . . . Civil rights champion since student days . . . Speaks up for blacks, women and other minority groups as director of IBM, Scott Paper, Chase Manhattan Bank . . . Member of prestigious Washington law firm with strong middle-of-the-road Democratic ties . . . Protestant . .. Married to William Beasley Harris...
After O'Neill succeeded John F. Kennedy as Representative from Massachusetts' Eighth District in 1953, he lived half the week in bachelor style in Washington. Weekends he commuted to Cambridge, where his wife Mildred had chosen to stay to mother their five children. Saturday mornings he was likely to be seen pushing a shopping cart through the Star Market on Porter Square, where constituents buttonholed him. He patiently jotted down their complaints-and later acted on them...
...reasons of his own, Billy has chosen to adopt a buffoonish public persona when the reporters come calling. That did not help him much with the townsfolk. "I joined the church when I was twelve years old," he likes to say, "and I've been back there three times since. Correction-five times...
...movie blows its chance. Although Cinematographer Haskell Wexler has executed in a masterly way the visual style chosen by Director Ashby, it is at odds with the story. Diffusion filters give a falsely nostalgic, pastoral glow to landscapes forever fixed in the hard-edged photos made of the '30s by the likes of Walker Evans. Soft photography makes the movie seem sentimental even on those few occasions when it is trying...