Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to me, as I indicated to you last year, that the next change in presidents of Harvard should occur fairly soon, preferably near the beginning of the fresh chapter rather than three years from now," Pusey said. "If this can be arranged, my successor will have an opportunity to help design and order the new developments of the era ahead as well as effect their fulfillment...
...example we will use, appropriately called Love Story (see chapter VII, "Making the Movies," for comments on Love Story as a film), author Erich Segal has chosen a Harvard setting to convert the universal to the particular. But you must be careful not to let the setting intrude upon the story: once you have described the locale and dropped a few place-names, remember to keep it a story that could happen anywhere to anyone...
...this Segal gets maximum mileage from his sad ending (the death of the heroine Jenny) by revealing it at the beginning. This not only imbues the entire novel with foreboding (so dear to the hearts of the Ladies' Home Journal readers for whom this particular novel was serialized; see chapter IV on writing for magazines) but keeps the readers reading to see how the author gets to his announced end. Nowadays surprise, unless you are able to handle it with finesse, is best avoided...
Riots? Banfield's chapter title alone should make his opinion apparent: "Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit." Thus, "It is naive to think that efforts to end racial injustice and to eliminate poverty, slums and unemployment will have an appreciable effect upon the amount of rioting that will be done in the next decade...
Well, here's the latest chapter. Last week a French spokesman announced that the true figure was "closer to 110." For once, the French may have been erring on the high side. According to U.S. officials, France's President, Georges Pompidou, wrote President Nixon informing him that the true, final, no-kidding figure was precisely 108 planes...