Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surprisingly, Truffaut chose not to build the film solely out of psychological depth and intensity. The Story of Adele H. alternates between the depth of Adele's passion and the uncomprehending world around her. The audience is not subjected to and unrelieved barrage of profundity. The strange thing about Truffaut's perspective is that the everyday world doesn't destroy Adele, doesn't hamper her, and doesn't seem devalued compared with her own state of mind. Adele destroys herself while the world looks on benignly. With the exception of the callous (though not evil) lieutenant there are only good...
...Dean Sacks has apparently seen himself in an adversarial role with students in this matter. This, despite the fact that students first approached the Dean for information and advice. Unfortunately, Dean Sacks chose to mince his words and mislead us, stalling for tactical advantage--good lawyering, perhaps, but hardly a way for members of a university community to deal with one another. Ira A. Burnim
...National Security Adviser, Carter chose Brzezinski, a former State Department member who is vociferous in his defense of "limited wars" like the Vietnam...
...rebel liberal school known as "Seminex." Last July the church's convention authorized Preus to dump dissident district presidents 60 days before they were up for reelection. Herman Neunaber of the Southern Illinois District was the first to reach such a deadline. But last week Preus chose "counseling and brotherly admonition" for Neunaber instead. The peace-on-earth approach may not outlast the season, however. Odds are that come spring Preus will expel one or more district presidents, at which point his foes will probably begin to leave the theologically split church...
Died. Theodosius Dobzhansky, 75, Russian-born geneticist whose work at U.S. universities and research institutes earned world acclaim; of a heart attack; in Davis, Calif. Dobzhansky, who came to the U.S. as a student and chose to remain when the spurious environmental doctrines of Stalin's pet geneticist, T.D. Lysenko, became Communist dogma, was best known for works such as Genetic Diversity and Human Equality and Heredity and the Nature...