Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They chose a plan which would be a lesson in counter propaganda. University officials latched onto the "Hoaxters", a lesson in Nazi methods of propaganda, and billed it along with "New China" for a showing on April...
...distressing that of the alternatives, the Defense Department chose the worst. If it had continued to hold the men in absolute secrecy, Army officials would not have needed to make the partial explanations and muddled statements that they did. Public doubt would not have been aroused; those unindictrinated by the Communists would escape false suspicion of guilt...
...Senate Agreed. Ike Eisenhower chose Oveta Hobby to run the new welfare department partly because Oveta is a Texan and he owed an election debt to Texas, partly because she is a woman and he had promised to install women in positions of responsibility. But he chose her principally because Oveta Hobby possesses a rare talent for tactful administration. The Senate agreed with the President. Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson, a Texan himself, took her under his wing and introduced her around Capitol Hill. When her name came up before the Senate Finance Committee, the Senators confirmed her in seven minutes...
Middle European uniforms. Says Evans: "We tried to picture a court that was military in character as well as decadent." In cutting the four-hour play to less than two hours, Scripters Mildred Alberg and Tom Sand chose to drop entire scenes and such characters as the gravediggers and Fortinbras (whose lines were given to Horatio), rather than make internal cuts in the speeches. Only one of Hamlet's soliloquies ("How all occasions do inform against me . . .") landed in the wastebasket. Twelve minutes were devoted to commercials for Sponsor Hallmark Cards, which has twice sponsored Menotti's Christmas...
Like the prose, the poetry ranges from good t disappointing. In "Jonathan Victus," Peter MacVeagh chose his theme with care, nurtured it through four fine stanzas, and then uprooted it poetically with a jarring last verse. Similarly, Benjamin La Farge, in his "letter To a Friend," includes phrases like "where old men snore" which may satisfy a demanding rhyme scheme but which destroy the tone of the poem...