Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Murray's herpetology is just as impressive as his exegesis: the serpent was cursed after the temptation but Chaliapin, in the tradition of most artists, chose to show the serpent the only way Adam's children have ever seen...
Adjusting to Center. His point, while not the only or the most important lesson of the 1954 election, was easy to document. What happened in Colorado was a striking, one-state capsule: the voters there chose a Republican U.S. Senator to replace a Democrat, a Democratic governor to replace a Republican, a Democratic lieutenant governor, a Republican attorney general, and re-elected two Democrats and two Republicans to the House of Representatives...
...also dominated its pendant show of Dutch prints and drawings. Rembrandt's etching Faust (above) asserts a force of imagination foreign to his environment. With such pictures, Rembrandt outstripped even the glorious age into which he had been born. In advancing his art beyond fashionable portraiture, Rembrandt chose poverty, increasing neglect, and immortality...
...seems, was guilty of passing out cigars wrapped in tinfoil and $10 bills. No-one would have been outraged if he had distributed them democratically, but unfortunately the Senator gave the tinfoiled cigars to known Democrats, while the $10 variety went to Republican and undecided voters. The Senate, furthermore, chose not to accept Newberry's plea that he was educating the Indians when it was discovered that his supporters had helped the Saginaws mark their ballots...
Prime Ministers. Last week, with Ali away, Ghulam Mohammad struck back: he withdrew an order that disqualified four of Ali's most dangerous rivals from holding public office. Several Moslem League leaders, including two members of Ali's Cabinet, chose this moment to gang up on Ali. Ali flew home in a hurry. From Karachi airport Ali moved directly into conference with Ghulam Mohammad. "Reform your Cabinet," ordered Ghulam Mohammad, and Ali had to comply. Until the elections, which would show the U.S. which way its new ally was heading, the Pakistani to watch would be Governor General...