Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concert by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra last Sunday was a welcome change. For the first time, conductor Russell Stanger chose a program that responds favorably to a non-professional performance. This is an effective compromise between the Stephen Foster Johann Strauss child's play that most college orchestras play, and the prohibitively-difficult works that the H.R.O. has attempted in the past...
...Unknown Prisoner, Butler chose something between abstraction and realism: a forbiddingly cold and empty structure, rising like some futuristic television antenna, with three grieving women looking up from beneath. Butler thinks that his symbolism suits a monument far better than any standard, realistic figure. Says he: "You must avoid the reaction, 'Oh, poor chap, he does look thin.' And if I made a statue of a god, it would be a big man or a small man with a big tummy or a flat tummy. So to make an image, I conceive a prisoner who is invisible...
...Chicago's Francis Chapin is a cheerful conservative with his feet firmly planted in the dazzle of impressionism. "I chose the regatta as a subject," he says, "because it was just plain old pictorial." His prizewinning result, as light and easy as Rattner's is dark and difficult, proves that there is nothing wrong with such a modest ambition. Taken together, the two paintings speak well for the scope and vitality...
Olevson noted that over a third of the 330 students who requested to represent a specific member of the United Nations chose Russia or a satellite, while only 84, roughly one fourth, asked to be U.S. delegates...
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences meets at the Pantages Theatre tomorrow, it will-if running to form--abandon scientific selection and vote along non-artistic lines. Two years ago, to skirt a decision between All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard, the Academy chose Born Yesterday. And last year An American in Paris became the darkhorse victor over A Streetcar Named Desire, A Place in the Sun, and Death of a Salesman. Gene Kelly's technicolor crepe suzette was a fine musical comedy--it was also inferior to the other three. Also last year unpopular Marlon Brando...