Word: well-chosen
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This pose is most irritating in the improbable scenarios which make up much of the book. The plot of these encounters is nearly always the same: Kelman enters a scene of political confusion, dispenses a few well-chosen? words, and leaves the previously-muddled speechless and enlightened. One of the best of these comes from Kelman's freshman diary, when he straightens out a few blacks...
...young man is wild and must run after women and bad company," Dr. Johnson once observed, "it is better he should do so abroad." But whether in search of pleasure, polish, or the splendors of Palladian architecture, young Englishmen, usually with tutors, infested Europe for three centuries. With well-chosen pictures and pungent quotations from travelers (including Diarist John Evelyn, Tobias Smollett and Edward Gibbon), this book gives a remarkably funny and extremely revealing country-by-coun-try account of Albion's impact upon the Continent-and incontinent...
...performances are all individually creditable, but Will Lee and Bernard Wurger are too high-pitched for the rest of the cast, and particularly for Eda Reiss Merin's well-controlled, neatly uncliched portrayal of Bessie. The set, a brown concoction involving one compound flat and a good deal of well-chosen furniture, is just fine...
...most exciting effects of the evening are produced by that mixture of set designers, lighting men and hangers-on billed as the "Brattle Street Trust." The scenery, which is a blend of lighting and well-chosen props, makes a fascinating, fluid background to the strange play that jerks enigimatically along in the foreground...
...presents her childhood memories of a Jewish family trying desperately to hide its origins without forgetting them. By recalling her own early confusion, she vividly illustrates the paradoxes and complexities created by the Bernays' cultural reorientation. Miss Bernays has infused the article with a quiet humor which makes her well-chosen examples all the more revealing: "Granted, the Harmonie Club had done its utmost to blanket its essential character, thereby losing out in gemutlichkeit (like a deodorized delicatessen), but it was still a club for German Jews." In her treatment of the persistent and uncomfortable problem of disentangling the cultural...