Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REFUSAL of the Massachusetts State Senate's Ways and Means Committee to free Chapter 842, the state-wide rent-control enabling act, for a vote by the Senate is a disgraceful abuse of power in high places. Thousands of tenants depend on the law to maintain stable rents and to prevent unfair evictions by landlords. Without it rents would almost certainly undergo an immediate hike. Keeping the bill in committee at a time when its expiration date is drawing near will kill it, and so silence the voices of tenants and their supporters in the Senate on an issue that...
...sometimes produces really good and perceptive lines (writers "will descend into pulpdom, where the libidinal cathexes are so simpleminded it seems that anyone with a grudge against women has a chance to make money.") Maybe Leonard has watched too much TV, or thinks too much about beefing up his chapter in Familiar Quotations, but at least he's in there plugging...
...presidency of the Rotary International. But it speaks ill of that organization, and specifically of its central nominating committee, that Wick's candidacy was not terminated immediately after authoritative information about his sordid and criminal past became known. And it is to the discredit of the Boston Rotary chapter that they made no formal protest of the Wick nomination and instead professed a desire to wait until the Rotary International responded to the evidence produced by war crimes investigator Simon Wiesenthal and corroborated by Wick himself...
Cartoon Eccentrics. Novelist Alther, 31, draws this story in broad strokes, and as exuberant caricature Kinflicks is authentically inspired. The chapter on Ginny's communal life at the "Free Farmlet" is a wicked send-up of half-baked ideas and less well-prepared menus: "Dinner was a murky soup, filled with dark sodden clumps that looked like leaves from the bottom of a compost pile and that tasted like decomposing seaweed, and whole grain bread which you needed diamond-tipped teeth to chew." The novel teems with cartoon eccentrics mouthing balloonfuls of in flated nonsense...
...Winkle said the chapter cannot afford to endow a permanent scholarship, but hopes to renew it annually...