Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last time the University tried to put such diverse groups as Room Thirteen, Crimson Key and the Freshman Task Force under one umbrella, the groups chose to get wet separately...
...athletic department, realizing the disaster that would result if it kept Restic and traded the entire team to Yale, chose to can the coach instead. Restic, after being informed of his dismissal, immediately packed his things and headed for Notre Dame, where he will take over as head football coach tomorrow...
...accountability, and the rest of the Venetians are simply time-serving hedonists seeking the shortest route to pleasure no matter how unjust. Or Hamlin might have aimed for "historical accuracy" and had Shylock played, as George C. Scott played him a few years ago, as a contemptible buffoon. He chose for the middle way, and provided a viable, plausible interpretation that does not strain anything to the breaking point...
...general, Congressmen of both parties felt that Ford had blundered, not only because of some bad timing and a lack of usual courtesies, but, more important, because of the questionable caliber of a couple of the replacements. As successors to Schlesinger and Colby, Ford chose two ambitious and heatedly partisan Republicans: for Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, the White House chief of staff; for CIA director, George Bush, the chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Senator Henry Jackson, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, charged that Ford was surrounding himself with "yes men and lackeys." The switches...
Selected anythings are usually not great as profiles of writers, probably because it's good to get a feel for the rough edges, the incomplete thoughts, and the out-and-out failures to appreciate what a writer does at his best. As for Joyce's "anythings," Ellmann chose the letters for this collection mostly on the basis of their general interest. And the interest never seems to sag just paging through these letters. Still, readers might rightfully doubt if they can do justice to what Ellmann calls "Joyce's principal assertions of his character and of his literary aims...