Word: well-chosen
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...half, applauds the case sincerely and takes the play very seriously indeed. No one giggles. And there is no reason anyone should. Persona is a fine production, with two excellent actresses in the key roles (Maeve Kinkead and Sheira Freedman), a fine director (Sarah Stearns), a beautiful set, well-chosen music, and a throroughgoing professionalism...
Morrow. $24.95. An ambitious attempt to survey and characterize American painting from colonial times to the present. The book is useful in that it handsomely gathers a vast amount of information as well as some 330 well-chosen illustrations. But of the six essays that make up the text, only those by Dartmouth Art Professor John Wilmerding and Dore Ashton are really good. The others range from the merely competent to the opaque. Another complaint: several abstract paintings are reproduced standing on their left sides-without indicating this curious fact to the reader...
SATURDAY'S BACH Society all-Mozart midnight concert was a good concert. Not great, and certainly not flawless, but with such a well-chosen program no orchestra could go too far wrong. By choosing such old chestnuts as "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and the Haffner Symphony, Robert Hart Baker '74, the Bach Society's conductor, might well be accused of beating a dead warhorse, but his conducting style is so refreshing that it revitalizes even overly familiar works...
When the grand jury prosecutors' desire to question the President became known last week, White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler replied that the President would not testify either in person or in writing, claiming that for him to do so would be "constitutionally inappropriate." The phrase was well-chosen, for the Constitution does not specifically address the question, though it does provide a limited measure of immunity for Congressmen. What it does do is lay out precisely, in the articles of impeachment, a process for interrogating a President, and many Constitutional authorities feel that this is meant to exclude...
...Year: Dr. Henry A. Kissinger [Oct. 30], who realizes that balance-of-power politics and long-range planning is really what it's all about. What diplomacy, sagacity, steadiness, knowledge, eloquence and, with it all, a sense of humor. What a well-chosen man for such a difficult task...