Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, it is by his social theories that the new Jock Lit author tries finally to establish authority. The rambling nature of Michener's essay−chapter headings range from "The Media" to "Government Control"−allows him plenty of room for obiter dicta. They are all too predictable. Solemnly he warns against "the jungle of juvenile sports competition." As if it were a late bulletin, he announces that professional sports have become too violent ("I am worried about ice hockey"). He also worries about women athletes' vulnerability to foot injury, but he is, of course, for women...
...could shell out six bucks a ticket for the rooftop boxes at Fenway and watch the ballgame in isolated splendor. But you probably don't have any out of town clients to impress and our informal survey shows that none of you hold high positions in the Lincoln, Mass. chapter of the National Association of Manufacturers. In that case, the bleachers are your best bet. A slightly alcoholic, bedraggled-looking college kid from some hometown out of the area who knows very little about major league baseball fits in perfectly here...
...message that Jimmy Carter -who still reads a chapter of the Bible every night, in Spanish-may have heard echoing through the long dark nights of the past few years...
...third new member of the chapter is a paleontologist. Gray, who will be one of two speakers at the Radcliffe Silver Anniversary Dinner this Friday, is the curator of Paleobotany at the Museum of Natural History and a professor of Biology at the University of Oregon...
Arthur Boucot, professor of Geology at Oregon State University, wrote to the Radcliffe chapter urging Gray's election. He described her as "a critical-minded, productive, first-class scientist who has produced a steady flow of incisive, well-reasoned publications, that have materially advanced her field...