Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways, monotheism led ultimately to a new assertion of man's worth. It rose as a unifying force above countless tribal deities and, therefore, tribal conflicts. But, facing outward, it also encouraged exclusivity and intolerance-the line between the believer and the infidel, the chosen and the unchosen. Christianity and Islam have had the historical habit of descending with a sword on strangers. The world's other great monotheistic faith, Judaism, has traditionally been more defensive...
...Connecting Link. Says Counter: "These people represent for all of us a historical control group. They represent to American blacks a mirror of the best example of what we would have been like if we had chosen not to live in slavery and had removed ourselves to another place...
...either President Ford or Ronald Reagan are achieving a once-in-a-lifetime celebrity status as they are fought and fawned over by supporters of both candidates. As last week began, Ford led Reagan by only 1,050 delegates to 977 (needed to nominate: 1,130). With 63 delegates chosen at four state conventions late in the week, Reagan added 46 to his total and Ford 17. The revised standings: Ford 1,067, Reagan...
...effect a small downtown in itself, with offices, shops and a strikingly handsome 20-story hotel (architect: Chicago's Harry Weese). Financially, the shops have not yet drawn a crowd of customers, but aesthetically Crown Center is a smash hit. Its existence is one reason Kansas City was chosen as the site for next month's Republican Convention...
...colors were at least well chosen by the founding curators. (Who would rally around a flag of, say, beige, green and yellow?) From time immemorial and in almost every culture, red has stood for valor and sacrifice, white for virtue and unity, blue for truth and freedom. They are ambivalent, of course. Universally, red is the color both of cardinals and prostitutes, anarchists and patriots; white, of surrender, blue of melancholy. In the U.S. particularly, red can also connote financial trouble (as in ink), blue moody music (as in jazz) and white racism (as in honky...