Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chaos." For his third offering, March had planned to read Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Killers. But as tribute to World War II PT-boat Hero Kennedy, Widow Mary Hemingway had dug through a bank vault of her husband's unpublished manuscripts, come up with a chapter from a novel about a young American who fought Nazi submarines from a fishing boat. It began: "The wind had blown heavily for more than fifty days but now it had dropped off." Mary Hemingway had removed some of the profanity beforehand. After March finished, she sighed: "It was typical...
Finally, 37 far-leftists were forced out of SANE, the New York chapter was dissolved and reorganized with a screened membership, and the organization adopted a policy of criticizing the U.S.S.R. as well as the U.S. When Russia's Khrushchev-insisted on a troika to supervise a test ban last year, SANE took ads to say: "We believe that such a three-man council, operating with a veto, cancels out the very purpose of control." When Khrushchev later boasted about firing a 50-megaton bomb, SANE accused him of "an act of nuclear madness" that "contemptuously defied all decency...
...college campuses. Says Jay Greenberg, editor of the University of Chicago's Maroon: "SANE is on a decline. The peace groups that have emerged are more activist. Students seem to desire a new approach." The largest campus group is the Student Peace Union, which has about 70 chapters, mostly in the East and Midwest, is big on peace marches and demonstrations against civil defense. Norman Uphoff, head of S.P.U.'s University of Minnesota's chapter, criticizes SANE for its official stand against "civil disobedience" in peace demonstrations, adds: "SANE will not challenge the Government, and therefore...
Daniel Eigerman leads the return to competence with the opening chapter of his unpublished novel, Heartboy. Eigerman writes smooth, rhythmic sentences; he had a flair for dialogue that builds his characters and has begun a tale that promises to be intriguing. Quite pleasantly, Heartboy does not smack of self-analysis; Eigerman has a story to tell and he tells it, without any unneeded verbiage or Angst...
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