Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PAVIC has chosen to write under an enormous number of self-imposed constraints. He even boasts in the subtitle that he has written a novel "in 100,000 words," and although I doubt that the translator has followed Pavic's linguistic game that strictly, I do not doubt that Pavic himself wrote exactly 100,000 words in the Serbo-Croat. My rough estimation of the English edition comes...
...film, made for Western audiences and in a Western style, may be in Hindi (with subtitles), but it is not intended for those familiar with the scene it describes. And while the rag picker chosen to play the main character gives an outstanding and natural performance, one nonetheless suspects the choice was made for reasons of pathos, not talent...
...tool that Spence has chosen for helping to implement his plan is one uniquely suited to the dean's background and management style. It is a quiet, behind-the-scenes set of changes that Spence hopes to effect, and it is perhaps simpler to build consensus around complex revisions in hiring formulas rather than a straightforward change in policy, professors...
...often thoughtless vigor--has pervaded our country and our university. Harvard has mired itself in these sullied waters, dragging its venerable name through the mud and endangering its position of leadership in the intellectual community. Presently facing a plethora of controversial moral and ethical issues, the University has chosen to shamelessly cower from its responsibilities, instead of standing firmly on the high ground...
...then, except for a close-minded boorish conservative mentality, has Harvard not chosen to follow the course it has set for itself...