Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took oath as a member of the new nine-man federal council. Thus the "Switzerland of the Americas" became one of the two countries in the world to be governed by an executive council with a rotating chairmanship. (The other: Switzerland.) As its first presiding officer, the council chose a man who had worked hard to persuade Uruguayans to abolish the presidency and adopt the "collegiate" council government: ex-President Andrés Martínez Trueba...
...Oxford he took highest honors in law, and could have been a professor, but chose, rather, the more exacting career of a free-lance writer. He was attracted by its uncertainty. He hates uncertainty...
...Historian Henri-Irénée Marrou explains it, it is like the holes in a sponge. "Evil," he continues, "is something that need not have existed ... It reveals in all its depth and ambivalence the mystery of liberty . . . Satan, an angel, is the free being who first chose to move away from the Source of all being and towards the nothingness from which he had been drawn...
...sampling, the new age proved to have a strong flavor of the past: Choreographer Ashton chose as his subject the legend of Tristram and Iseult. But he gave it a twist, and the audience found it all fresh and pleasant...
Mallary is probably the only artist who ever chose to do most of his work in the dark. He molds his abstract sculptures from transparent acetate, paints them with luminous pigments which glow only under ultraviolet "black light." Hung from wires and set gently twirling in a dark room, his mobiles resemble pallid but unfading fireworks. Like fireworks, each combines three-dimensional form, color and motion in a single work, all glowing eerily in the invisible beams of ultraviolet lights...