Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sick and tired of hearing the argument that we should recognize the Peking regime because that is the government the Chinese people chose. Would those who support this argument ask themselves whether in all sincerity they would choose such a government? If not, why do they think the Chinese people would freely and willingly choose such a government...
RECENTLY, Music Editor Richard Murphy-aware of what a confusion there is of great, near-great and merely good concert pianists-set out to rank the best of them, and chose four. He seems to have survived the ordeal well: his choices were not seriously challenged. This week, on the occasion of Joan Sutherland's much-cheered debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Murphy dares to rank the greatest sopranos of the day. He finds six outstanding. Readers are again invited to disagree-or even, if they wish, to agree...
...evening's redeeming feature were the compositions themselves. A composer can weave simple musical threads into a dazzling fabric or unravel good broad-cloth until it is lint. Bach and Mozart chose to weave simple tunes into golden cloth...
...accusation came from an ultraconservative organization called the Stay American Committee. Formed last October to "combat Communism in Phoenix," the committee put up a slate of city councilors, chose as its mayoralty candidate Insurance Man W. Buckner Hanner, 45. To start off his campaign, Hanner, a World War II fighter pilot who boasts of his membership in the John Birch Society, charged that Charter Government's city manager system was part of a plan launched by the National Municipal League (a thoroughly respectable association of U.S. civic leaders who work for such reforms as urban renewal, Metro government...
Yesterday Yovicsin showed no sign of changing his mind, evidently placing sentimentality ahead of practicality. Apparently he chose to ignore the implications of Brown's "Stop Ron Panther" sign, which students hastily drew and displayed at Saturday's game after word got around that Panther might be eligible. And he was not swayed by an upsurge of Harvard student sentiment...