Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME chose these special correspondents for their professional skill as well as for a firsthand knowledge of their cities and regions. Their job is to alert TIME'S editors to spot news of national interest, and to keep them informed on upcoming events and on the changing grassroots moods of the country...
APRA agreed. Odria chose Lavalle, and most other candidates dropped out. Only Prado and Belaunde stayed on as formal opposition candidates. By mid-May, when a mostly Aprista throng of 35,000 cheered Lavalle in Lima, Odria seemed on the verge, after all, of electing...
...being betrayed by men in whom he had the utmost confidence, you were warned that the conscientious pursuance of your congressional committee duties would, whether you were right or wrong, invoke unending opposition of powerful political and academic forces. Almost alone, you went ahead. Under another great President you chose to serve though you knew that under one so colorful and popular, the Vice Presidency would mean an oblivion deeper than the shades of night . . . You have put into that office a maximum and mighty service of legislative accomplishment, of reconciliation of diverse forces . . . and promotion of international understanding...
...Albers chose squares within squares as the composition for his color experiments because the square is "human," i.e., an intellectual construction which almost never occurs in nature. His monochromatic experiments in form require more complex shapes, but these, too, he keeps geometrical and tightly organized. "The measure of art," Albers believes, "is the ratio of effort to effect." By this yardstick, his Biconjugate (see cut) rates high, for it draws the greatest possible variety from the least possible shapes and shades. Looking at the top of the picture, the two figures seem identical but reversed; moving to the bottom, they...
Heir to All. This painful, terrible book has been made from the last letters of priests, pastors, officers, officials. Most of them could have chosen to share the promised Nazi victory, but instead, each chose to be a victim...