Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...valuable lands as a part of the national heritage. Says he: "Never before in our history have we been able to set aside areas of this magnitude." Other conservationists, including spokesmen for the 16-organization Alaska Coalition, endorse his views. "This is it," says Jack Hession of the Alaska chapter of the Sierra Club. "This is the nation's last chance to set aside meaningfully large areas of Arctic and subarctic lands. It doesn't make sense to sacrifice the lands now for short-term economic gains...
...class. Last week Columbia tried to make things right, if not logical, with the author of How to Read a Book by awarding him its Graduate Faculties Alumni Award for Excellence. Adler accepted benignly, noting later that his difficulties with the college had provided him with a chapter title for his autobiography: "Dropout." He also revealed that he finally learned to swim-when someone told him that it was as easy as humming...
...problem as one that reaches beyond schools to the roots of society. "Why has this school [the Nairobe School] not failed its children? Because its teachers must successfully teach in order to keep their jobs...in many public schools, teacher attitudes keep on blocking the door." In a chapter called "Visiting Professor From the Real World," Dr. Eliot Shapiro, the elected community superintendent of a district in Harlem, hints at a different kind of "accountability" in education...
...Dawkins," writes Emmerich, "has gotten too wrapped up in his theories of genetic determinism to admit that cultural and environmental influences also affect behavior" and says that it is not until the last chapter that Dawkins "finally acknowledges that humans can 'rebel' against their 'selfish genes'." But, on page three, Dawkins states...
...Harvard-Radeliffe chapter of the Sparticist Youth League (SYL) met last night to organize a committee to protest a University-sponsored conference on South Africa scheduled for April...