Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church groups joined together to form the Ad Hoc Committee on Prison Reform, a group that put pressure on Governor Francis W. Sargent, with mailing and campaigning, to reform prisons. In February 1972, Sargent appointed a new commissioner of corrections, John Boone, and introduced a new prison reform bill, Chapter 777. The bill, which the legislature passed in June 1972, gave Boone the power to make changes such as work releases, furloughs, and education releases--all reforms which increase the prisoners' interaction with the community...
Stella Dallas, Ma Perkins, John's Other Wife and scores of others were devoted to the most reliable ingredient in theatrical history: domestic crisis. None achieved the longevity of One Man's Family, a series of almost Biblical length; its 3,256th and terminal episode was labeled Chapter 30 of Book 134. Contemporary TV soaps like As the World Turns and The Secret Storm are lineal descendants of the old radio shows. The pauses are still pregnant-but so are the new heroines. And much of the subject matter deserves an R rating. There were no married priests...
...published three new books. Building Coalition: American Politics in the 70s (New Viewpoints) is what Greeley calls "unsolicited advice to the Democratic Party on how to put itself back together." Sexual Intimacy (Thomas More Press) is a priest's enthusiastic endorsement of inventive marital sex play. A chapter on "How to Be Sexy" envisages a wife surprising her husband "in the library . . . wearing only panties and a martini pitcher." One right-wing Catholic columnist declared that even discussing the book would be an occasion of sin. (Greeley promptly started a sequel.) The New Agenda (Doubleday) may be Greeley...
...orchestrated "mail" against awarding Solzhenitsyn the Lenin Prize. There is a cold fascination in learning that Glavlit-the machinery of hacks that controls censorship-could overrule even First Secretary Khrushchev about what should be published. More recently, Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov (Quiet Flows the Don) had to delete a chapter from a new novel called They Fought for the Motherland at the censors' insistence because it dealt with prison-camp tortures. In its place, Sholokhov substituted a discussion of fishing techniques...
...Hospice in London, where the dying are given "highs" on alcohol and heroin that kill pain and sometimes induce euphoria. There is the Maryland Psychiatric Center at Catonsville, where LSD is used as a kind of rites-of-passage drug, making death less alien while making the last chapter of life more tolerable-or so it is hoped...