Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this goes on in China. That fact doesn't seem very significant because Brecht seems to write with a dark Germanic humor and the English version which the Harvard Dramatic Club chose is by Eric Bentley, who never uses a foreign word when an American one will do. The colloquiality (?) of the piece is one of its charms...
...least on paper, comprised more than 90% of China's peasantry. The movement is now spreading to the cities. At Yangchuan coal mine in Shansi province, where more than 28,000 miners and their families formerly lived in "an unorganized, undisciplined manner." i.e., scattered around as they chose, workers have now been assigned to living quarters according to their work areas and shifts; according to Peking's People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head of a row of rooms in the living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners...
...sports shirt, sat basking in the desert sun and in a delightful dilemma: whether to hew sternly to a campaign pledge to serve his full four-year term as Governor or to sound like an oracle when people talk about him for the Democratic national ticket in 1960. He chose the oracular: "I believe in a certain philosophy of government-of a government which serves all the people-and I think that as Governor of California I'll have a chance to work for that kind of government not only in this state but in the entire nation...
...Nasser's sleazy methods. Jamali had supported Iraq's membership in the Baghdad Pact because he saw only two possibilities for a modern state, either "strength or alliance with one of the big blocs. We are not strong, and therefore we must join an alliance. I chose the West...
Unruly Veep. Another crisis was still to come. Under the impression that Frondizi's troubles made him ripe for ousting, a group of his political enemies attempted a coup. For their front man they chose Vice President Gomez. Gomez went to Frondizi, told him that unless he stepped down and allowed Gomez to step up as head of a coalition government, blood would be shed. Frondizi quickly checked with his army chiefs, found no sign of dissension, then faced Gomez. Outmaneuvered, Gomez backed off. later claimed that it was "all a tremendous mistake" and that...