Word: choses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adult. Reza Khan started as a noncommissioned officer in the Persian army, rose to colonel, and in 1921 led a military revolt that finally ousted the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty in 1925. Even before he had seized the bejeweled Peacock Throne- for himself, he chose Pahlavi, one of the ancient languages of Persia, as his dynastic name...
Ginny Schneider '80, current RUS vice president, said yesterday, "Observing from past elections, women don't like to compete with each other. They chose the post no one else is interested...
Director Garry could have taken some of the burden of enlivening slow patches of the script off the actors' hands, but chose not to, using dull blocking and an entirely static--though lavish--set. The only evidence of a director's hand in the production at all, in fact, is the presence of a pianist (Jeffrey Halpern) on stage before each act, playing show tunes and Gershwin with flair but without much point...
...visitor from the outside who might show her another--married--life. And to Amanda, he is a mythically important guest, for he reflects the ultimate in preparing for the future, just as she once planned for the future by entertaining 17 gentleman callers in one afternoon. Like Amanda, who chose wrong from among her suitors by opting for the charming but elusive Wingfield, Laura fails in her timid...
Campus Drinking As a college freshman, I found your article "Going Back to the Booze" [Nov.5] to be true. We too had a "flurry of pamphlets on how to fight alcohol abuse," but they fell to the ground, dropped by those who chose to remain uninformed...