Word: selected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since he is the man who has brought stability to France and hopes for peace to North Africa, I would strongly urge that you select General Charles de Gaulle. ALAN DAVID ENTINE Melbourne, Australia...
...expatriates of the '20s clung to Paris as long as their money-or their parents' money-held out against the Depression. Today, in duffel coats and beards, a new generation of expatriates throngs Le Select and Les Deux Magots. But a sizable number of the U.S. exiles, and the most stable group among them, are seldom seen in the Left Bank cafes. They are Negro artists and writers...
...been said that this book has a high literary value; it has much more; a style, an individuality, a brilliance which may yet create a tradition in American letters." Said The New Yorker: "The special class of satire to which 'Lolita' belongs is small but select, and Mr. Nabokov has produced one of its finest examples...
...poetry in English, white-haired, high-shoed, 84-year-old Robert Frost called himself a "Poet in Waiting," demonstrated before newsmen that the west-running brook is still clear at the source. His job in Washington is to encourage the best American poets, and his problem is "how to select. Whom to favor? Not just somebody who says, 'You know me, Al.' " Allusive modern poetry that "doesn't come to some meaning is born dead. Nobody reads it. They write it only for each other." Good poetry is written in "fine, clear pictures." Abstract painting...
...University Center. Living in the dormitories is not too communal, and the university has broken the dormitories into more intimate entry sub-divisions. To give dormitory groups more character and identity, they might consider a system of small dining rooms, and perhaps a highly modified form of "rushing" to select residents for each group...