Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard skiers were among 20 Easterners in a national field of 54. Mitchell and Hinkle were chosen on the basis of their performances in two cross-country meets held earlier in the season at Lyndonville, Vt. (Dec. 30-31) and Putney...
Public opinion polls about the war, the relationship between attitude toward the war and socio-economic background, and the effect of the war on Vietnamese village life might be topics chosen for individual study, Inkeles said yesterday...
Even in Mississippi, with 42 per cent of the population Negro and a dozen counties capable of electing Negro officials, fair elections would not necessarily result in any Negroes on the delegation. It is selected by a statewide convention whose delegates are in turn chosen at the county level. Negroes could not possibly gain a majority of the state's 82 counties...
...chief ministers arose for the final action choice, though, I had a subtle premonition of disaster. But it was too late for any further discussion; our paths were definitively chosen. Nervously I chewed the end of my Bic pen and waited for the speeches to begin...
...illustrative. Nonetheless, in the second half, beginning with the beach sequence, L'Etranger becomes a tour de force of subjective camerawork. It uses the zoom lens to juxtapose the moral postures of the different characters, and create a monstrous and disordered world around the anti-hero. Visconti must have chosen to film L'Etranger for strange reasons. He is plainly more interested in the dramatic mechanics of the preposterous trail then in the all-important meditations of the prison cell finale...