Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School of Education's chapter of a national honorary teaching fraternity has voted to withdraw from its national organization to protest the fraternity's policy of excluding women from membership...
Seventy per cent of the Ed School's chapter of Phi Delta Kappa supported the withdrawal decision after a biennial meeting of the fraternity's national council refused to recognize women as members. Harvard and several other graduate schools have been accepting female members on a local basis despite national council rulings...
...have applied for permission to live in Sweden. It is not automatically granted; the standards for acceptance set up by the Swedish government stipulate that the dodgers and deserters must demonstrate that they were very probably in line for shipment to Indochina. As a statement from the Swedish chapter of Amnesty International carefully points out: "We have helped draft resisters and deserters in a humanitarian way if they have been destitute. That's all. We haven't mixed in policy matters...
Revel's elusive rhetorical techniques prohibit refutation of his conclusions. Because he claims his arguments are intuitively obvious, his sloppy syllogisms cannot support controversy. He has found a disconcerting way of stating his views at the start of a chapter, and then discussing whatever occurs to him. Suddenly the word "therefore" appears, and Revel blithely announces he has made his point and he claims only foolish French leftists would disagree. I suppose this tone is meant to be audacious and amusing, but I did not laugh...
...possible example, and it is particularly appropriate because the author, Dame Julian of Norwich, is herself a woman and because she links Jesus who appeared on earth in male form to the mother image, is to be found in her Revelations of Divine Love, written down in 1373 (chapter 58) which runs: "For in our Mother Christ we profit and increase and in mercy He (sic) reformeth us and restoreth.... Thus worketh our Mother in mercy to all His (sic) children...