Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems, with the deliverance of Dean Fox's new testament on the housing issue this week, the closing chapter of this long and boring book might be at hand...
...more people if he published or broadcasted his thoughts. Or consider the listeners: you can't very well go to the middle third of a lecture, the part you're interested in, or read a newspaper during the boring parts. But you can skim a book, read a chapter, or even just read the table of contents. So the argument goes...
Despite its generally light touch, the new Catalog broaches some fairly sober issues. A thoughtful chapter on how the deaf can build a rewarding religious life outlines a sign-language worship service. Another section, on blindness, includes a Hebrew alphabet in braille. Other entries grapple with the ethical problems of premarital sex, contraception and abortion, trying to adapt the stern proscriptions of the Torah to more modern attitudes. Jewish divorce laws, for example, are weighted heavily in favor of the husband, making it difficult for the wife to start proceedings. The Catalog suggests ways to balance the inequality. "The important...
More than anything else, however, Schumacher is practical. Whether discussing subsistence agriculture in his chapter "Two Million Villages," or the principles of big business organization, he treats topics often approached by fantasy-prone utopia-builders in a convincing, down-to-earth manner...
Though open to other influences, as his frequent references to Gandhi and his chapter, "Buddhist Economics," indicate, Schumacher comes across as a believing Christian whose faith informs his daily life and practice. Yet, ever thoughtful of his reader, he accommodates the agnostic by explaining the "rational" functionality of religion. For Schumacher, the primary task for men of the 20th century is one of metaphysical reconstruction; that is, putting a new of set of values in place of those destroyed by 19th century thought in social theory, natural science, psychology, and philosophy...