Word: chosen
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...Final Yes. From 1958, the entire Hasler family had been under the influence of the Stocker-Kohler "holy family." The ex-priest and his mistress believed that they had been chosen by God to lead the survivors of a coming apocalypse. Minutely detailed instructions for the group came from a Carmelite nun, known as "the Little Star," over her "direct telephone to heaven...
...chosen for the Shaw trial last week were beginning an ordeal known as "sequestration." Another dozen will meet much the same fate this week or next when they will be shut up in a Los Angeles hotel. They are the California citizens who will ponder the fate of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who is accused of assassinating Senator Robert Kennedy...
Under the banner of mutual loyalty and concern, Laing says, men become nonthinking tools of the group. All those who belong to it are considered We, and merit its protection and privileges; those who stand outside the chosen circle are labeled Them and deemed the enemy-"the Reds, the Whites, the Blacks, the Jews." At its extreme, Laing warns apocalyptically, the "demonic group mysticism" of We-Them can evolve into a "brotherhood unto death," as in Nazi Germany. "Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same thing, feel the same threat, then their behavior is already captive...
...much easier for M. De Montherlant to think himself a hero when he faced women (and women chosen for his purpose) than when he was obliged to act the man among men-something many women have done better than he, for that matter. -De Beauvoir, The Second...
...recommend the establishment of a co-ordinating Committee on African Studies. The Committee should be chosen from Departments presently involved in aspects of African Studies. Student representation on the Committee is also recommended; these should be selected by the two branches of the undergraduate constituency concerned with African Studies...