Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power, undertook to nullify the laws of man and the laws of God for the purpose of gaining what his tory will call a very temporary political advantage. Those who participated overlooked one of the laws of God which is set forth in the seventh verse of the sixth chapter of the Galatians...
...Sanctuary. He might well have been thinking of Rowan Oak, the 1840 mansion he bought in 1930 in Oxford, Miss. Last week the University of Mississippi purchased the refurbished mansion from Faulkner's only daughter for part of a new cultural center. The study wall, with its manuscript chapter outlines of a Faulkner novel, is already a tourist attraction...
...population of Atlanta is only 52% black, but 80% of its schoolchildren are black. To stem the continuing white flight to suburban schools (4,686 white elementary students left the system over the past year), the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter struck a compromise in a 15-year-old desegregation suit against the Atlanta school board that leaves over half of the city's schools virtually all-black and could become a model for other cities seeking to skirt extensive busing of schoolchildren. In return, the school board guaranteed the hiring of Atlanta's first black superintendent and other high...
...friends in the literary world that he refused to write any criticism, despite many offers. He lived so deeply inside his writing, and sacrificed so much of his own being to it that it is hard to separate the man from his work. His suicide is the last unwritten chapter of Recovery; the book and memory of the man together will remain as testimonies to the fame that so bedevilled...
...Thank you for your portrayal of gifted children [June 4] as the majority of them really are ("a thoroughly natural child," "he ran about the house and hurtled through the garden," "you can't do everything") and not as we usually see them depicted-in the last chapter in a book that includes the physically handicapped, the mentally retarded and the emotionally disturbed...