Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amorality brought on by "the great democratic mess in which there's no hierarchy, no scale of values, everything's as good-and therefore as bad-as everything else." This dour viewpoint may be valid, as cocktail-hour philosophizing goes, but its polemical exposition in the first chapter damps the chemical process that produces satire. Burgess writes comically enough about TV-induced catatonia. the god-awfulness of roast mutton, and the entanglements of adultery, but the reader feels compelled to check each incident with the solemn preamble-is such and such really putrid or merely pathetic...
...recent bid to buy 100% control of its British subsidiary ("Why should all the profits flow across the Atlantic?"). Last week, newly returned from an 18-month U.S. sojourn, the Express's "This Is America" columnist, personable Peter Chambers, 36, unstoppered a report that read startlingly like a chapter-and-verse rebuttal of his paper's-and his boss's-views...
...Paris (imagined), the reader notices a few things about the Keyes technique. There are no purple patches-only grey ones- and there are no onstage sword fights or seductions. Novelist Keyes's strong point is research, and where Frank Yerby or Taylor Caldwell might liven the soggy chapter by unhooking the heroine's bodice, Morphy's chronicler merely recreates a chess game. While it is open to question how much the author knows about chess, the royal game, it is clear that she is a master of Authors, the game of royalties...
...California, and the Navy had stationed Lederer in Honolulu, where he still lives. After both had done a considerable amount of independent research and formed definite ideas on the content of the proposed book, Lederer flew to California for a weekend. While there, he and Burdick outlined every chapter even remotely possible--over 60, of which about 20 were finally used. Lederer then returned to Honolulu, and the actual writing was begun...
Each author took half the chapters, bought a small, portable dictating machine, and outlined his sections on one side of the machine's small records. He would then mail the record to the other, who would inscribe suggestions on the back of the record. After one or two further crossings, each in a more complete form, a given chapter would be written out, mailed once more, and edited. Thus each man wrote half the book and edited the other...