Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chapter 15 of that book, "Why Men Climb," contains more philosophical analysis than many pounds of run-of-the-mill theses. Here, if you please, is genuine scholarly research...
...months ago, the Russians began a new chapter in their history with TIME. Correspondent Israel Shenker, our Moscow bureau chief since March 1963, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow and read a formal statement charging that our cover story on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and the state of the Russian economy (Feb. 21) was "slanderous." Unless we changed our approach, he was informed, our office would be closed. In a reply to the Foreign Ministry we said, in effect, that we intended to continue reporting the Soviet Union as we saw it. Last week Shenker was called...
Where Gielgud's first book, Early Stages, Jeans toward autobiography and family history, this sequel is simply an objective appraisal of past performances and possible roles. He begins with a chapter on acting--"Art or Craft"--in which he discusses preparation, makeup, the question of "business," and The Method...
...SPIRE, by William Golding. Overriding church, chapter and parish, a saintly dean drives his architect to build a huge, prayer-envisioned stone spire on the shaky foundations of his cathedral, and then realizes on his deathbed that his spiritual inspiration was probably only worldly ambition. A metaphysical summation of his four previous novels (Lord of the Flies, Free Fall, etc.), William Golding's medieval fable is a provocative and often brilliant statement of the helpless and iniquitous nature...
When rightwing organizations mounted a counter campaign and 1,000 protesting letters rolled in from smalltown businessmen, the sponsors nervously softened their proposal by writing into it their disapproval of granting long-term credits to the Communists. As it turned out, they overestimated the opposition. Only one Chamber chapter (from White Plains, N.Y.) voted against the proposal, and a group of leaders-including Edwin Neilan-wanted to go even farther by specifically endorsing trade with Red China...