Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miss the point in suggesting that Dr. Alfred Kinsey's study was criticized primarily for the small sample used. A sample of 5,300, properly chosen, is ample for most purposes. Kinsey's work was criticized for exactly the same reason you say Nielsen's ratings are suspect: the respondents may not be a representative sample from the group they are supposed to represent. If the families willing to have a Nielsen recorder on the TV set are a special class, what about the men willing to discuss their private lives with Dr. Kinsey's researchers...
...Chosen, Potok...
...Lawyer Nguyen Van Loc, or perhaps Suu's running mate, Dr. Phan Quang Dan. In the effort to broaden the base of the government, a goodly number of the Cabinet posts are slated for civilians; Thieu and the U.S. had hoped Huong and Suu would be among those chosen. Even if they do come into the Cabinet now, their prestige is badly tarnished. And Dzu himself, as the French saying goes, is not ministrable. Thieu would not have him, and Dzu would probably not accept, even if asked...
Passionate Know-How. Jarrell's chosen theme was life made precious through knowledge of its vulnerability, and with unerring instinct he chose to express it often through the reveries of a woman -a woman who hides her deepest findings about life lest they destroy family morale. The theme is best expressed in "The Woman at the Washington...
After a publisher produces two hits, a good move is to find a third book that mates them. Simon & Schuster boasts one of the year's biggest Jewish novels, The Chosen, as well as a more lighthearted Catholic bestseller, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Their publishing offspring is a Catholic-Jewish novel-specifically the story of a custody fight between the two faiths that becomes a body-snatching contest...