Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bicentennial of the foundation of the United States of America is observed at a time when Americans have chosen to put to trial the strength and validity of some of their institutions and to question some aspects of the action of their country in international affairs, and it takes place in a period of rapid and deep transformations in the world. Looking back over the two centuries that have elapsed since the founding fathers created the first democracy of the modern world, Americans will no doubt feel elated by the tremendous achievements of their country. They can well be proud...
...Chosen Route. In this account of his own autumnal days on Martha's Vineyard, Hough, with great skill and charm, approaches the pangs and pleasures of aging in ways that very much recall Walden's formula: keep track of housekeeping details and the transcendental homilies will take care of themselves. At home Hough's day still begins as it has for years, with a predawn walk to Edgartown's harbor light. Graham goes along but does not always agree to the route his master has chosen, and, like many Americans, has "a weakness for excavation...
...danger of clinging to it out of self-esteem." For almost half a century he has been as consistently prolific a critic and commentator as he has been a poet. The range of his non-poetic work embraces a Communist polemic, Forward From Liberalism, that was chosen in 1936 as the book of the month by the British Left Book Club, as well as an account in The God that Failed of his subsequent disillusionment with the Party. He has written a wide variety of books and articles on poetry, art and criticism and has spent much of the last...
Director Joseph Wilkins, rumored to be assuming a new name after the show closes, has chosen to do Richard Wilbur's poetic translation in a twentieth century setting. The light, witty eighteenth century elegance of Wilbur's heroic couplets is totally out of place and soon becomes tiresome droning. Add to this a genuinely ugly set that is half a caricature of art deco and half a clumsy imitation of seventies Manhattan townhouse elegance. Pile on costumes that range from late Victorian decadent fopperty to Gatsby-esque knickers and then to late sixties hippy uniforms. This confusion...
...insight or analysis. Walter Cronkite enlightened viewers with the fact that while only .0000002% of the population are astronauts, fully 2% of the U.S. Senate are now drawn from that calling. NBC's Jack Perkins interviewed Ezra Coram, age 100, of Riverside, Calif., who said that he has chosen mostly winners during his 76-year balloting career and this year voted for Ford. CBS's incisive Bill Moyers even lapsed once. Midway through a discussion of the 1876 election with Eric Sevareid, Moyers had to apologize for suggesting that the hoary-headed commentator had been around that year...