Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sickened by Ernie Holmes' description of his calf slaughtering. If he wants to act like a subhuman, why doesn't he save it for the playing field and the other beings who've chosen to be there with...
...even less. Young people married quite early and began to have children immediately. Now childhood extends, arguably, into the end of the second decade of life. The concept of "adolescence" is ours-and was unknown to colonial parents. Our children are increasingly likely to have been carefully chosen-in the sense that contraceptive devices and pills, along with legalized abortion, have separated sex from the inevitability of childbearing. Families are smaller. Children are by no means hurried into adult responsibilities. In fact, they are granted not only special foods, special doctors, but also a separate and distinct psychology and morality...
...measure of the dilemma is that one can so readily sympathize with both sides. The Met, headed for another $9 or $10 million deficit this year, is in its worst financial trouble ever. Bliss, a Wall Street lawyer and president of the Met board from 1956 to 1967, was chosen as executive director to lead the company out of that morass. He has made it clear that his way will involve considerable retrenchment...
...dilemma for East Timor's 650,000 inhabitants, who had been faced with one of three political fates: continued association with Portugal leading to gradual independence, immediate independence or integration with Indonesia. The generals in Jakarta decided on integration, evidently because they feared that if independence were chosen, East Timor might some day be used as a staging ground for guerrilla operations mounted by Indonesian dissidents or Communist-backed rebels...
...Electra/Asylum Records has chosen to promote, not these impersonal poems, but the two singles most like Mitchell's previous outpourings of love and love's conflicts. "In France They Kiss On Main Street" is a catchy song which revels in young love--"amour, mama, not some cheap display." The other single, "Don't Interrupt The Sorrow," appeals to animals if not to fight at least to rise; each distinctly narrated verse repeats the melody...