Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contemporary glitz has not impressed everyone. While he admires the bravado, U.S. Designer George Nelson notes that Memphis seems unconcerned with such staples as utility and affordability. Says he: "There's a bottomless appetite for novelty in the age of hype. The interesting thing is why they chose to call it furniture." And the Museum of Modern Art's director of architecture and design, Arthur Drexler, refuses to mount a Memphis show at MOMA. Says he: "Announcing that it's all deeply philosophical gives the media a peg to hang it on. But it's only...
...adventure" was to last only four days, and because of the brevity of my visit, I chose to bypass the sights which Intourist strongly recommended. I never did purchase a ballet or circus ticket, and I walked past the opulent department store--for those with Western currency only, thank you--on Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrad's business district...
...when war broke out, White was typically uncertain of what he wanted. He didn't know whether to enlist or to go to Cornell and wait for the draft. In the event, he chose Cornell, working as a Farm Cadet the summer before he left to satisfy his feelings of patriotism...
According to Elledge, White's college education seemed to strengthen and confirm rather than shape or remold his character. He chose Cornell rather than any other college because his older brothers had studied ther and because "Cornell was less uncomfortably elitist, less discriminatory, less homogenous than Harvard. Yale or Princeton,"--schools he could easily have entered. In the course of his years in college. White became editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun, a post which seems to have meant more to him than any other single experience...
...Northern Irish secondary school, writing at night and on weekends, Heaney published two volumes of poetry, Death of a Naturalist and Door into the Dark. But it was not until 1972 that he reversed the procedure, choosing poetry as his main work and lecturing as a sideline. He also chose to move south, to County Wicklow, a suburb of Dublin, with his wife Marie and their three children. "I felt that by throwing up my job and moving and taking the risk of confronting my own emptiness I had the right to the word poet...