Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happy birthday telegrams and letters poured in by the bagful. But at 88, Pablo Picasso remained in seclusion at his villa near Cannes on the French Riviera, granting no interviews and seeing only a few carefully chosen friends. The most that newsmen and well-wishers could hope for was to hear Picasso himself answer the phone and in his distinctive voice announce: "Monsieur et Madame ne sont pas ici . . . " Click...
Political Goals. Informed observers believe that Leonard has been chosen to carry out some of the promises that Republicans made to Southern politicians during last year's presidential campaign. Speaking for many critics, a former lawyer in Leonard's division says: "He was made to understand that he should enforce civil rights laws, but only in a manner consistent with the Administration's political goals." When 65 lawyers in his division protested the delay in Mississippi desegregation last month, Leonard handled the revolt like a loyal party man. Once a decision is made in the department...
Last week Aubrey returned to power. Las Vegas Financier Kirk Kerkorian, who a month ago won control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, picked him to be the company's new president to replace Louis ("Bo") Polk Jr., 39, who was fired. Polk had been chosen only last January by Edgar M. Bronfman, whose 16% holding in the company was the largest until Kerkorian bought roughly a 40% share for about $100 million. (Time Inc. owns 5%.) Bronfman and one of three other directors representing his interests quit the 19-man board last week...
...hitherto been little involved in housing, including Republic Steel, General Electric and Union Carbide. Next month ten or 20 of the Breakthrough proposals will be selected by the Housing and Urban Development Department to share $15 million in research grants. Prototypes will be built on eight sites to be chosen from among hundreds that have been eagerly offered by 170 state and local governments...
...first production, Senclick has chosen George Bernard Shaw's Overruled Georges Feydean's Madame's Latte Lamented Mother. and Chekhov's The Wedding. Each takes a part of the chaos of a man and woman living together, and satirizes it with a turn of century sense of opulent depression...