Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of one-man cult of the culdesac: the king of the pessimists in a bumper year for pessimists. Cioran's recent book of essays-"fragments" he likes to call them-threatens with success a man whose first principle is to hold success in contempt. See the chapter on "Fame: Hopes and Horrors...
First published in France in 1964, the "fragments" of The Fall into Time are described by their author as "rather like sermons." The chapter headings are suggestive: "The Tree of Life," "Is the Devil a Skeptic?" "On Sickness," "The Dangers of Wisdom." If Cioran, against his will, can be taken as a spokesman for our times, it is because he so excruciatingly expresses the dilemma of the man born too late to be a Christian and too early to be anything else...
...Dorchester chapter of the United Farmworkers has organized a march from Newton to Dow Chemical's office in Chestnut Hill at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow to protest the injunction...
...following 24 members of the class of 1971 were elected last week to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa: Paul B. Armstrong of Eliot House and Allentown, Pa.; Stephen H. Bandeian of Lowell House and Holyoke; Russell L. Barsh of Leverett House and New York; Lawrence R. Barusch of Eliot House and Richmond, Calif.; Steven M. Berzin of Leverett House and Paris, France...
...reader searching for immediate medical and social relevance in molecular genetics will find the chapters on viruses and cancer especially informative. It's not necessary to be a hard-core biochemist to read Watson, and a look at these chapters will make technical papers and even newspaper stories about cancer experiments a lot more comprehensible. In the chapter entitled "A Geneticist's View of Cancer," Watson first discusses the specific changes cancerous cells undergo on infection, and then details the molecular mechanisms proposed for the transformation of cells by tumor viruses. If left at that, this chapter would...