Word: well-chosen
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra opened its season yesterday afternoon with an outstanding concert at Sanders Theatre. Under the leadership of conductor Attilio Poto, the orchestra performed a well-chosen program with unusual competence. The strings this year reclaim their position as the dominant section of the orchestra, restoring the balance which was so sorely lacking last year, and greatly improving the overall tone...
...story itself -the Lost Generation expatriates running away from themselves in Paris and Spain-that sometimes stumbles, as if Producer Darryl F. Zanuck and Director Henry King had decided that the best way to condense the novel on film would be literally to shoot the action and dialogue in well-chosen chunks. Half the book is better than none, but the over-all effect is jerky. Nonetheless, in its best sequences, Sun shines more brilliantly than anything of Hemingway's ever filmed before...
...Cumming, another economical writer, appears, as usual, in black face. Like Ratte, with a few well-chosen references, he reveals the plight of his narator--a young Negro boy who is intensely concerned about being misunderstood--without, however, making his subject appear abnormally sensitive. One of the story's principal virtues is Cumming's knack for conveying the feeling of the woods in a very few words...
...ahead in the underworld. He paces the floor in his hotel room until all hours, sniffing wretchedly at his "Benny" inhaler. This reminds him of a former wife, a party named Parmalee. Few marriages can have suffered so implacable a description as he gives that one, in seven well-chosen words. "Caught better'n 50 colds from that broad," he gravels disconsolately...
...Viking Paperbound Portables, offering generous and well-chosen selections from such writers as Mark Twain, Gibbon, Voltaire, D. H. Lawrence...