Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talking Down. Among Bynder's criteria for rating the doctors chosen by other doctors are: 1) whether they have university appointments and if so, what rank, 2) their standing in professional societies, and 3) whether they are board-certified specialists. According to these standards, doctors choose a topnotch doctor in only 33% of the cases involving a minor illness. With a more serious illness, they are more likely to seek the most expert care. But Bynder found it "particularly striking" that even in such instances, they buy the best in only 55% of the cases...
According to a Globe report, about half of the 21 freshman who were accepted into Harvard as well as Navy ROTC, have chosen to attend Harvard rather than another institution where Navy ROTC exists. The Navy had informed them in exists. The Navy had informed them in May that it would not offer a freshman naval ROTC program this year. Further Navy plans have not yet been announced...
Neither a date nor a performer has as yet been chosen for another upcoming concert in the Stadium. This concert will be sponsored by the City of Boston; the proceeds from this concert will help to defray the expenses of "Summerthing," Boston's summertime arts festival...
...Orchard. I happen to belong to the small group that views The Three Sisters as the summit of all Russian drama. (On Chekhov's own admission, it was the play that caused him the most trouble to perfect.) And this is the work that the American Shakespeare Festival has chosen to round out the current season, thus departing from the fifth time in its history...
...last week, when Prince Juan Carlos Victor Maria de Borbón y Borbón was chosen to ascend the long-vacant Spanish throne-some day-there was no dancing in the streets of Madrid or other outbursts of public joy. The reasons for such restraint are largely beyond Juan Carlos' control and relate to Spain's strained domestic political scene, but it is nonetheless true that the Prince so far has failed to either excite a feeling of loyalty among his future subjects or emerge as a convincing, sympathetic human being. Asked by reporters what qualities...