Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka, for instance, opened a new session of the Diet just before the cease-fire with enthusiastic incantations of a "new age," a "turning point" and a "new chapter." Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew recently visited Thailand, where he and his aides discussed plans for Asia's future with Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn. Lee foresees "a period of intermission-a waiting for the end of one phase of history and the start of another, which we hope will be a more promising...
Fittingly enough, the first CEA report to be prepared partly by a woman -Marina von Neumann Whitman, the council's only female member-is also the first to contain a chapter on the role of women in the economy. The chapter was included because CEA Chairman Herbert Stein was asked to write an article for the Ladies' Home Journal on the subject; looking into the matter, he discovered what Mrs. Whitman calls "a mass of ignorance." The CEA report cuts through that ignorance in rather gloomy fashion and indicates that women have made startlingly little progress toward...
...lessons, Don Juan hammers away at Castaneda's dependence on Western rationality. To become a "man of knowledge," one must learn "not doing" until one can "stop the world" and, finally, "see." These elusive concepts are cornerstones in the life Don Juan is teaching--that of a warrior. The chapter titles read like a Zen training manual: "Erasing Personal History," "Losing Self-Importance," "Disrupting the Routines of Life" and so on. When the two men journey to the desert or the mountains to practice these teachings, Castaneda must become involved or be crushed by Don Juan's "stupendous, awesome" world...
...Separate Reality as a trap (Don Juan later admits) to ensnare Castaneda's warrior spirit. She is a formidable foe, yet she inexplicably fails to kill Castaneda when he bungles an encounter with her. As suddenly as she is brought up, La Catalina is mysteriously dropped after one chapter. For his final showdown with her, Castaneda will need an "ally," a spirit he must conquer for his personal use. In the last pages of the book, Castaneda meets his ally but does not tame it. Finally, Don Juan tells Castaneda that he will not explain anything more...
...Americas. A Woman Named Solitude seems to be an attempt to get it all in - all the legend and history, the com passion and private sentiment, including a parting volley for the victims of the Warsaw ghetto. It does not quite work. Somewhere, not too long after the first chapter, Andre Schwarz-Bart for got that a fable must be a unicorn, not a zebra...