Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capable of thwarting the course of empire, a system which could both fix and hold the American identity. "The Marshall court and Taney court", writes Miller, "thus kept their purpose fixed upon the idea of restriction, because, perhaps, if nothing were permitted, no violence would result." The brief chapter and the outlines on science suggest that in Miller's hands science and technology would also have spelled out their moral justification in terms of national unity, binding the nation with railroads and telegraph wires before it could shatter...
...more manageable 16 items. Five have already been promulgated: decrees on mass communications, the Oriental Churches and ecumenism and constitutions on the nature of the church. This session, four schemata will be dicussed ln full, then revised and discussed again before a final vote. Simultaneously, the bishops will vote chapter by chapter on the revised drafts of seven other items that have been debated at previous session...
This is unpromising in summation and wholly unreadable in execution. The author's method is to teeter on the window ledge of actuality for a few sentences at the beginning of each chapter and then jump into vagueness, singing like Ophelia...
CHARLES W. SARGENT President, Rio Grande Chapter Special Libraries Association Albuquerque...
...dear lady") to get everything straight, and makes delectable use of metaphor, hyperbole, quotation and epigram to facilitate comprehension. The narration itself forms a lacy fabric composed of a series of narrative loops, deftly thrown into the past and winding up where they started. Each loop fills a tiny chapter, and 121 chapters make a calculated pattern that is as satisfying (and sometimes as claustrophobic) as only perfection...