Word: chapterful
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...Women's Liberation has developed its own backlash. Declaring that "As the family goes, so goes the nation," Mrs. J.J. Jaboe last November formed the International Anti-Women's Liberation League in California. Today the league claims 15,000 members nationwide and has just established its Midwest chapter. Its principal work now is aimed at defeating the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution...
Colorado is also feeling the pinch of oversell. Through deliberate policy, Boulder has preserved the towering "flatiron" slabs to the west that give the city its name, but in all other directions it is bubbling over. Members of a Zero Population Growth chapter in Boulder, which once gloried in the title "Nicest Small Town in the U.S.," recently proposed a charter amendment that would set a ceiling of 100,000 on the population (current pop. 72,000). Though the amendment was voted down, concern is spreading. Denver now has more cars per capita than Los Angeles, and many Denverites...
...such a belief is a narcotic, a noble inspiration, a necessary myth or a tragic delusion. But the author shows where any reader's sympathies must lie. Like Michelet's histories, as Edmund Wilson describes them, this book "makes us feel that we ourselves are the last chapter of the story and that the next chapter...
What the discontents had to deal with was the fact that Gijsen was chosen -if not imposed-by Pope Paul VI himself. The Pope personally selected Gijsen over a list of candidates proffered by the diocesan chapter to fill the seat of retired Bishop P.J.A. Moors, 65, a moderate who had carefully mediated between conservative and progressive factions in his diocese. The Pope was known to feel that conservatives were not adequately represented in the predominantly liberal Dutch hierarchy, and Conservative Gijsen was his choice to redress the situation. The Pontiff emphasized his point by consecrating Gijsen in Rome...
With his commission thus firmly in hand, Gijsen came home to rule the diocese like an autocrat, pleasing some of the conservative laymen but alienating his mostly progressive clergy. The diocesan chapter is now so outraged that it has appealed to the Vatican for intervention. Last month, Cardinal Alfrink himself flew to Rome to offer his services as a mediator...