Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because of these experiences and these observations that we have chosen to create the Alternative Senior Gift Fund. After having seen numerous causes ignored by the College administration, we are not going to pass up this chance to (finally) influence College policy. We are putting our money where we wish it had been years earlier: behind the causes that we believe...
...probably know, we have chosen to withhold money from the University until it shows signs of achieving gender and ethnic equity in its faculty...
More impressive than the acting are the attractive set and cleverly used special effects. Behind the central couch, a different framed print hangs for each of the six scenes, each time keyed to the particular mood of the scene. The well-chosen prints ranged from Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup can to a Chagall print to Munch's The Scream. Another striking feature of the set was a medicine chest in which Kitty keeps her "blue wonder drug"--actually blue M&M's--as she nicknames the poison gas pills. Smoke billows out from the eerily lit medicine cabinet...
Swados and research director Christopher Terrio '97 have chosen some unconventional texts to adapt for the stage. The pieces range from casual stories of personal experience and issue-driven rants to humorous dialogues and touching poems. One story is about a little girl who says she's going to Christ; another involves a man trying to start a conversation with a woman sitting next to him on a bus. Others focus on more particular aspects of society, including race, sexuality and technology. Yet the large majority of the writing chosen illuminates the motivating forces that hold people together in confusing...
...delighted," said Associate Provost Dennis E. Thompson. "I was pleased with the speed of the appointment. I thought it was important to have someone chosen before Al Carnesale was to leave...