Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vice president of the United States has resigned and a new item--perhaps the climactic one--has been added to that chapter of our history books entitled "Watergate." But the net effect of all the, furor is likely to be little...
Despite its obvious doctrinaire intention, Public Purpose has plenty to say about issues right out of any morning's newspaper. The book has a fascinating chapter, for example, on "the concept of the household" that is bound to become an instant classic in Women's Lib anthologies. Consumption, while basically fun, says Galbraith, also involves a lot of work: maintenance of house, appliances and automobiles; food preparation; and "participation in competitive social display " Current economic truths presume that these duties fall to women, who are thus in a "crypto-servant" class. "Menially employed servants were available only...
Months late, but finally arrived: Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures. These videotaped spectacles (recorded last year) may well write a new chapter in the long history of the Norton Lectureship. Tickets will probably go quickly, even in the cavernous Harvard Square Theater. This is the first of six lectures which will continue every Tuesday through November...
That was the main message following all the hoopla at the Houston Astrodome last week. The putative Battle of the Sexes turned out to be one more sorry chapter in the story of the ancient struggle between sclerotic age and limber youth. In three straight sets that lasted 2 hr. 5 min., Billie Jean King, 29, the pride of women's tennis, briskly dispatched Robert Larimore Riggs, the huckster who had hustled the world of spectator sportsmen into believing that you really can go home again...
...same forthright, energetic fashion as she apparently lived her life. Alas, not so. Four years ago, she published a quirky, episodic volume called An Unfinished Woman. Her new book covers different material in the form of portraits of people whom she loved at one time or other, plus a chapter about life in the theater and an anomalous, charming piece about a snapping turtle...