Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most appear to lean toward the position of the Leverett House delegation, which has proposed the election of one representative for every randomly-chosen group of 75 students in a House. Such a system would result in a body of approximately 100 representatives...
...Sadat, reinstated in the army and now a lieutenant colonel, joined in the Nasser-led coup that ousted Farouk; Sadat was chosen to announce the dramatic news to the nation. Nasser himself took power from General Mohammed Naguib two years later...
...opera is taking place. One avid participant is the minstrel Tannhäuser, who is found snuggled up to Venus herself. Tannhäuser, of course, spends the rest of the evening trying to atone for his sins. Of the two versions of the opera that exist today, Levine has wisely chosen the revision Wagner made for the Paris premiere in 1861. By that time Wagner had written Tristan and was a much more sophisticated composer than he had been in 1845. The expanded bacchanal contains vivid writing, all right, but it is gripping stuff. The trimming back of the song competition...
...romantic repertory and a knack for reviving neglected works; of lung cancer; in New York City. Schippers was fond of saying that he wished he had been born a century earlier, but he made up for lost time. He started playing the piano at four. At 20 he was chosen to conduct the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul. He became Menotti's favorite conductor, a regular on the podium at New York's Metropolitan Opera, and in 1970 he was named music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...
...Americans are eager to be sprung from Mexican jails. Twenty percent of those eligible for transfer have chosen not to serve out their time in U.S. prisons. Reason: in spite of the corruption, Mexican prisons are less regimented than penitentiaries north of the border. Inmates are allowed to wear their own clothes, prepare their own food and enjoy conjugal visits from wives or girlfriends...