Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunting agreed to see the girls who had asked for a meeting with her. There she reiterated her reasons, all financial, for not allowing more girls into apartments. The girls also objected to the arrangement of having 12 girls from each House chosen, since East House sign-ups for the lottery far outnumbered the other two Houses. They specifically requested that the whole issue be given more consideration and the lottery postponed. Mrs. Bunting apparently refused this request, but "promised to do whatever was in her power to change the 12-per-house arrangement...
Joseph N. Sorrentino, chosen in a University-wide competition to give one of the English parts at the ceremony, said that, a gang fighter and the son of a street sweeper, he had flunked out of high school and taken a series of odd jobs from office boy to bleach factory worker...
...works have little in common aside from their relative popular momentum and their respective pans from Walter Kerr. Beckett's sad farce, already found on at least three Harvard reading lists, seems firmly included in the century's catalogue of major literature. Barbara Garson, on the other hand, has chosen quite deliberately to write on water in order to capture and abuse a given historical minute. (She hasn't succeeded very well, although parts of MacBird are screamingly funny.) Her mounting royalties, however, reflect the decade's most apparent theatrical pattern: a growing audience demand for "social commentary...
...geriatrics clinic. Though he had been reading up on medicine, he was careful never to perform an operation; as hospital director, he was able to confine his medical practice to diagnosis. But his true talent lay in administering the clinic and giving instinctively deft psychological help. In his carefully chosen specialty, the attitude of aged patients is often far more important than actual medical treatment. The kindhearted amputee, who had himself obviously suffered so much, was just the man to understand and salve a patient's problems...
...honeymooners (Robert Redford and Jane Fonda) settle into a six-flight walkup in Greenwich Village. In Ogden Nash's phrase, "a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable." And so it proves in Barefoot. The puny pad she has chosen has no heat, no bathtub, and a hole in the skylight...