Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ESSENTIALLY, this race is another chapter in the closing of the West. No more ranches, no more cowboys, soon--no more cars...
...Indochina, U.S. Congressmen touring their districts during the Easter recess encountered practically no support for President Ford's plea for further military aid. Observed Democrat Don Bonker of Washington State: "People are drained. They want to bury the memory of Indochina. They regard it as a tragic chapter in American life, but they want no further part of it." Said Republican Garner Shriver of Kansas: "The feeling is that we have made a considerable contribution to Cambodia and South Viet Nam and that we've done enough." Added Democrat Joseph Gaydos, whose district encompasses the formerly...
...followed well defined patterns over the course of 338 years, Lipset is faced with the problem of explaining why in 1969 undergraduate radicalism was able to mount such a stunning attack on the University itself. He resolves the problem with two devices--one historical and one psychological. In his chapter on "The Protest of the Thirties" he argues that Depression-era radical students failed to mobilize mass support among their peers because "the University did not present them with any issue of repression," the sort of issue around which students at other campuses were able to organize. To support this...
...fiscal problem: the Big Apple is slowly going broke. Its budget is expected to be in the red by at least $120 million in this fiscal year and by almost $900 million next year. A few experts even suggest that the city start afresh by reorganizing its finances under Chapter IX of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Last week the daily American Banker reported that New York might even have to default on $450 million worth of notes that are due April...
...final chapter provides an appealing clue to the sociocultural wounds that led the author to write the book. Though the subject is Jewry, Cuddihy also offers a particularly original meditation on a very old theme: the conflict between tree-swinging creative joy and the forces of social conformity...