Word: choses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senator Edward Kennedy chose the setting with an eye for drama, and history: the Senate Caucus Room, where his brothers John and Robert formally launched their runs for the presidency. Teddy's purpose was not to announce his own candidacy?yet? but to seize the initiative on an issue that seems sure to bulk large in the 1980 campaign: the skyrocketing cost of medical care. Before TV cameras last Monday he outlined the latest version of his national health insurance plan, designed to enable every American to have medical insurance regardless of age or state of health. Two days later...
...fast-decaying voice; Patti Smith's latest is a luke-warm porridge of mushy mixing and tame playing. Yet we have New York Times critic John Rockwell '62 hailing both artists as "principal figures in New York's vanguard rock underground," and liberally praising their records. Arista Records chose to release both new albums at the same time, helping link the two in the public mind. But then, to the rest of the country all musicians that emerge from New York sound the same, right...
Thus, speaking publicly in his capacity as chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. Mr. Calkins chose to confer legitimacy upon Ian Smith's "internal settlement." This type of political action by the Corporation exposes the fallacy of two basic premises in President Bok's argument against divestiture...
...baseball and lacrosse teams named their captains for next year at close-out cookouts this weekend. The batsmen selected junior outfielders Charlie Santos-Buch and Mike Stenhouse, while the lax squad chose junior Peter Predun (a third-team All-American last year) and Dave Wigglesworth...
...doubt that the Crimson would print advertisements which perpetuate racist stereotypes, yet it welcomes advertisers which use sexist stereotypes to sell their products. Two examples of such advertising which have appeared regularly in the Crimson are those for Pernod and for Busch Beer. The Crimson editors chose the most blatant example of exploitation of women, Playboy, to show their social concern; however, the more subtle sexual stereotypes portrayed in advertisements are more threatening to human rights, because they are more easily accepted...