Word: selections
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Back in 1937, immediately following the depression years, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and a select group of a dozen nationally prominent people formed a voluntary national committee for art appreciation to create an art program that would give the public a well-needed moral lift. It was the committee's decision to select the world's most famous paintings from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries - the best paintings of Matisse, Van Gogh, Gainsborough, Picasso, Gauguin, Titian, etc., and to reproduce them in full color as perfectly as humanly possible and make them available to the public...
...N.B.A. As of last week, Barry was the leading scorer in the league (33.9 points a game), the second-best free-throw shooter (a .920 percentage) and the No. 2 ball thief (2.65 steals average). Barry was also among the top five playmakers, the only forward in a select group dominated by guards...
Judge James P. McGuire interviewed 27 jury candidates to select the last six jurors for the trial. Of those six, two indicated they could support abortion, three said they had no opinion on the question, and one said he was "against" abortion...
...Norman Mailer was the first journalist/novelist, Abe is the first photonovelist (he has graced The Box Man with nine of his own photos), equipped wherever he goes with a periscope-like camera and tape recorder. And, while he is one of the select few to be translated into English, Abe the technocrat and his box man narrator--both hopelessly intertwined--are the epitome of the man in the house with one-way windows. Abe's cold, logical precision is the summation of all the statistics that point toward Japan's industrial and cultural decline...
Gorski, who is 34 years old, assumed his duties January 2. A select committee chaired by Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration, chose him for the post in November...