Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck and merely stays a while in the hospital, "doing fairly well for a man of his age, he understood, until he took a turn for the worse." And that's all. It is the understatement in these stories that make Powers such a master of his chosen topic: the clergy who lead quiet lives. Powers would be unfaithful to them if he presented their lives as action-packed...
...state legislatures last year. Free municipal elections are scheduled for next year, though the opposition is a bit skeptical as to whether this will really happen−and says so out loud. The powerful Brazilian state governors are still appointed by the President. And the President is chosen in a consensus of generals and business interests. The consensus candidate will have a token opponent at the next election in 1978; the election after that might be real...
...attraction is the merchandise?thousands upon thousands of items chosen in part for high style and displayed with show business flair. Shoppers swarm about high-fashion boutiques, fondling designs by Anne Klein and Yves Saint Laurent. They taste fruitcake samples in the lavishly stocked Delicacies Shop, which among its 7,000 items has 146 varieties of bread and 300 kinds of cheese. Coos Lee Radziwill, Jackie Onassis' sister: "It's the obvious place to go for everything. Oh gosh, it's the most fantastic and exhausting store in the world...
...many of them need no such transposition. The collection was chosen with timelessness in mind; there are duplications from the 1950 25th Anniversary Album, but many of the most dated old cartoons are gone. Into this category fall, unfortunately, most of John Held Jr.'s flapper drawings, Gluyas Williams's genius-inspired portrayals of crises in American Industry--based, all of them, alas, on now obsolete advertising campaigns. (I still believe that the sight of the rotund executive being forcibly restrained from plunging after the bar of Ivory in "The Day a Cake of Soap Sank at Proctor and Gamble...
...unacceptable to contemporary society or unnecessary." As for the right of privacy, it had to be subordinate in this case to "the state's interest in preservation of life." Muir noted that a few other courts had allowed patients the right to die, but only when death was chosen knowingly by the dying person. Said he: "There is no constitutional right to die that can be asserted by a parent for his incompetent adult child...