Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jazz Makers, at least, does not try to assess the contributions of famous musicians within a single contrived framework. Nine writers worked independently to produce 21 profiles; the editors stress the absence of a predetermined formula. Appropriately, most of the writers chose to place much emphasis on the extra-musical lives of the musicians. A few well-chosen biographical details can often shed more light on the highly personal art of jazz creation than pages of technical dissection. For instance, A.B. Spellman's Black Music: Four Lives, a classic in the field of jazz literature, was conceived largely...
...though about possibly throwing the ball off the field goal formation," Restic said after the game. But he said he finally chose the field goal as the best way to "get the ball into the endzone...
...pale colors in the portrait of Kissinger on the cover make him look pallid and sickly. You probably chose it thinking the glum look appropriate to the gravity of his memoirs...
...expected this Pope to renounce traditions like celibacy and the all-male priesthood on the trip. But, as an activist on the women's issue noted, "we had hoped for a miracle -that he wouldn't say anything." The Pope chose to delve into these controversies, in part, because he was under heavy pressure from the majority of American bishops to lend his popularity and publicity to their attempt to back unpopular church teachings...
...religious orders. The competing theory, heard increasingly in the Vatican, is that churches that cater to contemporary notions in order to maintain church membership do not prosper. The decline of many liberalizing American Protestant churches seems to bear out that view. The biblical example of Gideon, who chose to fight with an army of 300 dedicated men rather than 22,000 fainthearts, seems to apply as well. If a tough policy on celibacy and against freeing priests from their vows means fewer priests, says one Vatican source, then "they are likely to be better priests...