Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, by most outward measure, Vidal's present life is close to the last chapter in an Alger novel-updated by Gore Vidal. He spends eight or nine months each year at La Rondinaia...
Using techniques I first learned on the Crimson, I was able to add one chapter giving the story of how Governor Brown accomplished the minor miracle of getting the controversial farm labor bill passed. That chapter was actually written before its final passage and involved an element of risk...
...deadline for returning the corrected galley proofs was a Wednesday noon, New York time. The final compromises that permitted passage of the bill were not reached until late Monday night. On Tuesday, I waited ten hours in Governor Brown's office before getting my interview to complete the chapter. It was a hundred miles back to my home late Tuesday night where I transcribed the interview and completed the chapter. The final copy was dictated over the phone to my publisher in New York Wednesday morning. He jokingly accused me of turning the venerable Norton publishing house into a daily...
...book wasn't rushed to influence the elections, but an extra chapter was added to meet publishing contracts. Actually, anyone knowledgeable about California farm labor or any careful reader of my book would scoff at the idea that the book could influence the elections. They would realize that farm workers can't afford a $12.95 book, and that many of them can't speak, let alone read, English...
...slavery, nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Brown decision belatedly acknowledged this cruelly corrupting double standard. It focused on the nation's most sensitive testing ground of equality-the public schools. By asking for this disingenuously titled "simple justice," the Warren Court made possible a second chapter to the American Dream-a "resurrection...