Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa announced yesterday the election of the following seniors: Nora Browning of Jordan B and Columbus, Ohio, History and Literature, Suzanne G. Davol of Seville House and Greenwich, Conn., Fine Arts, Jane H. Fishburne of Jordan C and Arlington, Va., Anthropology, Barbara J. Friedberg of Comstock Hall and New York City, Mathematics, Julie E. Goldberg of Cabot Hall and Dallas, Texas, History and Literature, Martha B. Heineman of Whitman Hall and Chicago, III., English, and Mrs. Judith Arons Kates of Boston, History and Literature...
...survives that chapter with any honor; everyone in Mr. Wilson's new and very Waughspish world is damned and inhuman...
...more than absurd, they are bestial and very evil. The crucial incident of the first chapter (Snow's novels abound in crucial incidents) is not a hasty or disastrous slip of the tongue, as it is the gruesome death of a young assistant keeper who is crushed to death by a diseased giraffe. For the Zoo's leaders, however, death has only a Snowbound political significance: Falcon, the Curator of Mammals, is directly responsible for the killing, but Leacock, the Director, decides not to mention the incident to him because in his own campaign for a "National Zoological Reserve...
...MUCH for the first chapter. In his nightmare inversion of C.P. Snow, Mr. Wilson has exposed the inadequacy of the decent man in a struggle for power, the moral bankruptcy of the struggle itself, and has even suggested that every such struggle may be inherently absurd. He has also written a magnificently sustained, if harsh, parody of Snow's novels. World he had left is at that...
...Wilson is now immutably wedded to novel length writing, and his 80-pagem parody grows into a tiresome, nasty, repetitive 352-page expose. for Mr. Wilson has little else to say in his extra 272-pages. That Carter is immoral is abundantly evident in the first chapter; that his world is doomed to swift collapse is equally apparent. And yet Mr. Wilson feels compelled to narrate the events that reveal Carter as a bounder, and that bring about the final disintegration of all the bloated, macabre Curators...