Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aldrin was joined by Clifford Frondel, professor of Mineralogy: Elso S. Barghoorn, professor of Botany; and Ursula B. Marvin, staff member of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and associate of the Harvard College Observatory. The meeting was sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of Sigma Xi, a scientific fraternity...
...second chapter, it becomes apparent that the book works on both a symbolical-fantasy level and a representational one, a tension that recalls the effects of Jerzy Kozinski's vignettes in Steps. In what appears to be part of his "real world," Randy is absorbed momentarily by Progressive Labor, adopts a stringent Marxist line and announces that "whoever isn't a Marxist eats shit." The infusion of colloquial language lends a very real resonance to the book. Randy, finding the first few pages of Capital almost incomprehensible, suddenly becomes a coprophiliac. At this point, Author Innis begins to pull even...
...chapter in the book written by Fred King, a Harvard physics lab instructor, quotes Howard Zinn as saying "the war had to be opposed on all levels" and that the Shea Bill, even though it would not end the war, was a step in the right direction. So it was, but the liberal idealists who supported the Shea Bill must now see that their idealism is being outmaneuvered and subverted. At a time when the government is unresponsive to the people on the conduct of the war strong opposition is needed. Faith in our democratic institutions-as McGovern would have...
...Scenes Along the Road is another, late chapter of the record of that life for the "Desolation Angels," a chapter of snapshots and drugstore prints to go along with the volumes of words. There is a picture of Allen Ginsberg while he was still at Columbia, a spare, clean-cut, serious, youthful New York intellectual in horn-rimmed glasses. There are two pictures of Neal Cassady taken in 1946 just before he left New York for Denver after his first visit with Kerouac and Ginsberg; they're the same pictures that Kerouac describes in On the Road...
...they will be in history as another chapter in that oldest story, the collision of conscience with the state." That is not all. To those who read the Berrigans' writings and ponder the Berrigans' lives, the greatest fascination lies not with the collision between conscience and state, but rather that between the Berrigans' conscience and their...