Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many called to give rudderless France a new government, the sixth chose to try. Striding crisply into the National Assembly, bespectacled Edgar Faure (pronounced fore) asked to be accepted as Premier. The Deputies, impressed by his agile answers to sharp questions, unexpectedly approved him by a hefty majority (401-to-101). Then he sat down to try to piece together a cabinet, the twelfth to govern France since...
Everywhere Nehru's Congress Party candidates are symbolized by a pair of yoked oxen, the Socialists (who are being left in the shade) by a large banyan tree, the Communists by a sickle and three ears of grain. One Benares independent chose a camel, startled the Holy City by staging a procession of 100 camels through the streets. Another chose a rose, began distributing roses among his constituents. An anti-Prohibitionist made his symbol a bottle (he lost). The Religionists went in for rising suns and burning lamps. Holy Man Brahmachari chose a boat...
...attention to painting, the picture was often brought to nothing by his passion for tinkering. The grand mural depicting the Battle of Anghiari was completely lost because an experimental lacquer, one of Leonardo's latest notions, dissolved. The Last Supper early began to fade, partly because Leonardo chose to use an experimental tempera. Of all his paintings, only two or three, including the Mona Lisa, survive relatively unimpaired...
Starhemberg in the '30s seemed to be riding the wave of the future. But he made one great error. At a time when Hitler and Mussolini were still at odds, he chose the wrong fascist as his patron. With Mussolini footing the bills, he fought the Nazi Anschluss. When the "Nazis finally took over the Austria that he had so diligently weakened, one of their first acts was to confiscate the Starhemberg castles and estates...
Martha Foley, who took over O'Brien's job in 1941, has combed 35 annual anthologies and selected from them the 25 "best best" stories. The result, though highly readable, has some notable gaps. Because Editor Foley chose to abide by the judgments of earlier years, she had to pass up such masterpieces as Sherwood Anderson's Triumph of the Egg and Conrad Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow, which somehow never made the yearly collections. Some master storytellers, among them Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter and John O'Hara, do not appear, while William...