Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turner, Styron (1 last week) 2. Topaz, Uris (2) 3. Christy, Marshall (3) 4. The Instrument, O'Hara (5) 5. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (8) 6. Vanished, Knebel (9) 7. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (4) 8. The President's Plane Is Missing, Serling (7) 9. The Chosen, Potok (6) 10. Where Eagles Dare, MacLean...
...Hebrew Bible is depicted as the faithful protector of his chosen people. Yet at least 6,000,000 Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. To believe in the God of the Covenant today, concludes Richard L. Rubenstein, Jews must affirm that their creator "used Adolf Hitler as the rod of his wrath to send his people to the death camps. I find myself utterly incapable of believing this. Even the existentialist leap of faith cannot resurrect this dead God after Auschwitz...
...fast has involved more than a personal commitment. The entire community has benefitted from the increased political activity. Fasters have canvassed every dining hall, and asked students to examine the methods they have chosen to oppose the war. In addition, they have distributed 3000 pamphlets which describe every anti-war organization in Cambridge and Boston. The purpose of the fast has been to build a political commitment out of a personal...
...companies across America would not loan money in Boston; our credit rating had been recently changed; and a feeling of despondency, almost municipal hypochondria had settled over the City. It was necessary, as I saw it, to do three things simultaneously, with perhaps more haste than one might have chosen to use had other options been available...
...prose style of Harvard's course catalogue can make a literate student pretty drowsy. Most programs are chosen by word of mouth, and among those students who plow regularly through their catalogues, there is a tendency to dismiss whole areas of human endeavor, like Soil Mechanics and Urdu, which appear to the untrained eye irrelevant. Yet a careful reading of the catalogue brings scholastic joy to a small, notoriously uncommunicative group of undergraduates who have effected a virtual monopoly over the University's more exotic, which is to say more enjoyable, selections. Opposing monopoly, we bring this list forthwith...