Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political repression, was charged with slandering the Soviet state. Last week he was sentenced to five years of exile in a remote region. The sentence was reduced to two years because of the year Tverdokhlebov has already spent in prison awaiting trial. Said Valentin Turchin, chairman of the Moscow chapter of Amnesty: "It was public pressure from the West that made them cut the sentence, and nothing more...
Adriesue ("Bitsy") Gomez, 33, is a "gear-jamming gal with white-line fever." A woman truck driver from Los Angeles, she is also a pain in the axle to a traditionally macho industry. Her fledgling 150-member Coalition of Women Truck Drivers, an offshoot of the L.A. chapter of the National Organization for Women, already has organization cells in Dallas, Atlanta and central California. Two weeks ago, Gomez won a $6,000 Fair Employment Practices Commission settlement from a California winery on the ground that she had been turned down for a trucking job simply because she was a woman...
...pragmatic treatment of the facts in this concluding section is certainly not right either. Describing today's disapora is too much for Howe to handle. In its reliance on generalizations rather than anecdotes, this section lacks the immediacy which grips the rest of the book. Like the initial chapter describing life on the shtetl, the last seems short on life because it stands aloof, like experience twice removed...
...there is a more crucial reason, hinted at in an earlier chapter titled "The American Response," why these contemporary survivors hardly survive as real people in Howe's book. Although Howe obviously did not have the space to cite more than a few examples, the overall impression left by this chapter is that the theories of contemporary writers like Henry Adams and Henry James had more to do with shaping American attitudes toward the Jews than did the achievements of the immigrants themselves. Even more importantly, Howe hints that the dominant opinion in America worked against the immigrants' struggle...
Like the first edition, this one opens with the chapter on "Our Changing Sense of Self." Although it seems less revolutionary now that it did in the early '70s, this section, like the "Sexuality" chapter, still grabs the women who read it for the first time. Throughout the book, women find experiences included in the presentation similar to their own, a feeling another woman has expressed that coincides with one they could not themselves express. There's a lot of information here, too, about where to look for medical advice if you're not satisfied with their informal presentation...