Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might have been gentle about it, allowing negotiations to sputter out in a confusion of details. He chose to be blunt...
...Winston chose his official biographer: rambunctious Randolph, 51, his son, the journalist. The prodigious task calls for five volumes, or some 1,250,000 words. Four researchers, two secretaries and an archivist are already closeted in the Churchill mansion in Suffolk, sifting through 300,000 unpublished papers. And Randolph is still calling for more from "anyone who can send letters from or about Sir Winston or any firsthand recollections...
...letter was addressed to the Corporation and read "We wish to congratulate you on the new Visual Arts Center. In selecting Le Corbusier you chose not a safe and familiar figure but the man you considered the most distinguished designer anywhere. You supported him without hesitation. As a result, Harvard has been rewarded with a daring and distinguished building. The leadership you have shown makes us all proud...
...Honorable Governor Ross Barnett at the Law School Forum, while pathetically inadequate for the occasion, was in some ways a masterpiece. Mr. Barnett could not hope to deliver anything resembling a logical, sensible position, as he has never before been called upon to do so. Instead he chose to present a stump speech, a form with which he is intimately acquainted...
...Updike, who is a miniaturist, calls Roth's novel "overblown," but what limits the book to partial success is not its great size. Rather it is Roth's treatment of his hero, a tedious young English instructor who looks within himself and finds the world empty. Roth chose to write of this frail spirit in the first person, and trapped himself by accepting the instructor's lugubrious self-assessment...