Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been said with truth that we differ from the Romans in that we like our thrills in tabloid form whereas they chose to get their sensations at closer hand in the gladiatorial fights. Not only, however, do we prefer the sublimated honors which a well practiced imagination can build up, but in the course of 2000 years or so we have become more delicate in our tastes. No longer does a good, old fashioned, out and out murder whet the public appetite; we must have infinite complications--simple enough to be comprehended, but spicy--everything from Pig Women to perjury...
Aged 10, appointed captain of his "side" at a spelling bee, he chose the best-looking girls, who proved to be less intelligent than the ugly children, and so lost...
Recently the citizens of Tokyo chose famed swordsman-fencer Hiromichi Nishikubo as their Mayor. Last week he stepped upon a pair of scales to determine whether his now sedentary life has affected his weight. It has not. Mayor Nishikubo still weighs 238 pounds...
Salomé, his third opera, first produced in 1905, was a literal sensation. Because of the realistic power with which the composer treated the theme, for which he chose Oscar Wilde's necrophilistic version, U. S. presentations were banned for some time after the first Metropolitan hearing in Manhattan. But victrola records were allowed to popularize the "Dance of the Seven Veils"- and in Europe the opera at once took front rank. Followed Elektra, whose unpleasant theme, being classic, caused less offense; then Der Rosencavalier, an entirely new departure in its Rabelaisian farce of both libretto and score...
...opinion although it was in no way the general opinion of Harvard University. That he should have done so for the purpose of solving the Princeton-Harvard problem was unintelligent for he has defeated his own end. That he should have done so in the manner which he chose was very harmful to the best interests of the game which he has played and loves...