Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the Graduate School of Education's chapter of Phi Delta Kappa organized a women's caucus Wednesday to protest the national leadership's policy of excluding women...
...only large professional organization in the world that excludes women," Virginia Bareus, vice president of the Harvard chapter, said yesterday. "This practice has to be stopped...
Thousands of people turned out to see President Chester A. Arthur walk from New York to Brooklyn. McCullough gives the day a chapter of its own, and it deserves it, not only as an epic story's culmination, but as the story of a more optimistic age. Presidents were far-off heroes, almost royalty (even when, like Arthur, they were political hacks), and progress, however tarnished, meant the Bridge and not the Automated Battlefield. The scene is not only fascinating history, it is also great and bittersweet fun, reminding us of a time when we were less betrayed...
...basis of the writer's art, a closed world with that infinity inside, remains inexplicable. When, in the last chapter of Transparent Things, Person dies in a mysterious fire which re-enacts the dream in which he strangled his wife, does it mean that the being of the novel parallels that state of dreaming? Nabokov's last sentence tells of the death of the hero but also takes leave of the strange realm the novel has created: "This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pang of the mysterious mental maneuver needed...
...Harvard students have been elected to the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts chapter of Common Cause, a national either lobbying organizations...