Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first hints that a successor to Chairman Mao Tse-tung had been chosen came in a Hsinhua communique last week on the disposition of Mao's body. Capping a month of mourning, China's official news agency announced that the body of the Great Helmsman would be enshrined in a crystal sarcophagus in a mausoleum to be built in Peking. It was also noted that Mao's complete works would be prepared under the leadership of the Politburo, "headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng." It was the first time that Premier Hua had been referred...
...elevation to Chairman of the party-if and when it becomes official-is no surprise. As Premier and First Vice Chairman, Hua has effectively headed China's government since a strident wall-poster campaign ousted First Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing last April. Chosen in an apparent compromise between China's bickering radicals and pragmatists, Hua dynamically directed the rescue and rebuilding efforts following July's disastrous earthquakes. He impressed both foreign observers and party cadres with his skillful handling of Mao's obsequies...
...reporters, who are among 50 or so members of the year-old group, came to that conclusion within days after the killing of Bolles, who was also a member. So far, they have raised some $20,000 for the venture (the goal: $50,000). They have chosen as their leader Robert Greene, whose investigative task forces at Long Island's Newsday have won two Pulitzer Prizes. The IRE volunteers plan to publish the results of the investigation simultaneously in their 14 papers next January...
...peculiar that The Crimson, whose "Confi-Guide" has for years doggedly attempted to dissuade students from enrolling in Professor Mansfield's courses, should now complain about the way his junior tutees were chosen. There are many courses in the University in which enrollment is limited, and it is the rule that professors have great discretion in these matters. But there is only one senior professor in the Government Department teaching juniors in the tutorial program. James W. Muller '73 Tutor in Government
Well, Altman's legend will not stand on this little contestant, no matter how much Vincent Canby cheers her on from the sidelines. But chalk it up mostly to Altman's never-failing eye for realism. Because once having chosen this metaphor--a band of bad actors for a generation of gun-slingers--Altman portrays an acting troupe as he knows most of them to be--generally hungover, self-deluding, myth-gobbling and over-rated. So the real question remains: why choose this metaphor in the first place? Maybe Altman just wanted to give his real actors an improvising...