Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What was the first design the child drew in the first chapter of The Little Prince...
...Haven chapter of the Committee has estimated a crowd of 5000 people will attend the rally from chapters in Boston, New York, Buffalo, Ithaca, Washington and Philadelphia...
...commonplace among policemen these days to complain that the public is too indifferent about the recent wave of officers killed by snipers and ambushers. Cleveland's men in blue found out otherwise last week. After the unprovoked killing of Patrolman Joseph Tracz, the Cleveland chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police took a full-page ad in the local papers. Next to a large police badge pierced by a bullet, the copy said: "In our minds there is one whale of a difference between being injured or killed while enforcing the law and the rapidly emerging pattern...
...20th verse of the second chapter of Genesis says that "Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field." Clearly, this indicates that inventing names was to be an important function of his race. Contemporary Adam, confronting the menagerie of his own political attitudes, says: "This one is a gryphon. That one is a unicorn." Or, like Spiro Agnew, he invents hybridized contradictions: "That one is a gryphon unicorn." Lexicographically speaking, this Eden is hell...
Baking Cakes. Silberman's ideal of what schools should be doing is hard to fault: he is convinced that they can help "create and maintain a humane society" by making their first priority the production of "sensitive, autonomous, thinking, humane individuals." In a glowing chapter, he reports that his ideal is already close to reality in about half the primary schools in England, where orthodoxy is giving way to highly informal "open" classrooms. At first glance, they look like chaotic kindergartens: children move around talking; rows of desks are replaced by "workshop areas" arranged throughout the room...