Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...articles on the areas of their own special interest or expertise. The subjects include discussions of singers, songwriters and well-known studios, covering the range from Rhythm and Gospel, Rockabilly, Doo-Wop, Motown, the British Invasion, the Sounds of Memphis, Philadelphia, San Francisco and more. Up through the closing chapter which traces "the shape of the seventies," not a single important event in the history of rock has been overlooked or left out. When the occasional venture into hyperbole does arise, it is easy to forgive since, almost always, it is the product of genuine enthusiasm: for example, when Greil...
...international conferences, almost boyishly handsome even in middle age. Sartorially splendid in the Savile Row tradition, he looked and talked like an MGM image of a British diplomat. But his long career in politics and foreign policy involved problems of substance more than niceties of style. An important, long chapter of British history closed last week when Robert Anthony Eden, the first Lord Avon, died at age 79 of liver failure at his manor house in Alvediston, Wiltshire...
...author's prose style is some times clouded by a purple hue, but his in sights are as clear as those in Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell. In one chapter Selzer defines the heart as "purest theatre . . . throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. It quickens in response to our emotions. And all the while we feel it, hear it, even - we, its stage and its audience." The liver is that "great maroon snail," of whose existence one is hardly aware until it malfunctions. "No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives...
Full-rigged Monster. Yet by the last chapter even a skeptical reader should have a fair measure of respect for the author. The core of his novel is a good cautionary tale, and it is clear that Hayden, who in 1963 wrote Wanderer, a nonfiction account of his maritime adventures, is no stranger to the sea. It is in the explications of bygone politics and economics that his Voyage is becalmed for long periods. Happily, the same does not hold true for the four-masted bark Neptune's Car. The steel-hulled vessel beats around the Horn with...
...theory goes back much farther than 1929. Over 1,300 years ago, God revealed to his apostle Mohammed: "Are the disbelievers unaware that the heavens and the earth were one solid mass which we tore asunder, and that we made every living thing of water?" (Quoted from the Koran, Chapter 21, "The Prophets...