Word: chapterful
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This sentence comes at the head of a chapter entitled "Feminism and Volunteering." Despite the observation, Loeser concludes that the benefits to be gained from volunteering--interesting work, a possible lead to a professional career, working in a situation that has been "pioneered by women"--overrides the disadvantages and make it possible for feminists to espouse service volunteering with no loss to their political commitments...
...Patty Hearst suddenly heated up. There was a flurry of grand jury action on both coasts. If they did not know where she was, at least the searchers were sure that they knew where she had been. In keeping with the bizarre nature of the entire episode, the latest chapter involved a radical athletics director named John V. Scott who had once been employed by Oberlin College in Ohio, and-the strangest touch of all-Bill Walton, the talented, eccentric 6-ft. 11-in. basketball center of the Portland Trail Blazers...
...Irish carefully collects statistics that many other books on the country ignore. Taken together, they only underscore the obvious: Ireland is a marvelously consistent affront to rationality. O'Hanlon knows this. What is more, he does not mind giving the things he deplores their due. In an exasperated chapter on the Catholic Church and its dominion over the republic, he cites Tocqueville's brilliant insight of more than 100 years ago: priest and peasant stood together against the common Protestant landowning enemy. Nothing that has happened since, including England's 1922 exit from the 26 Southern coun...
Unlike any number of Ireland watchers, O'Hanlon offers no neat chapter full of progressive suggestions about future pol icy. His attitude is finally a supreme, Celtic compliment to Irish intransi gence: the admission that nothing can be done about...
...petition of a distinguished Harvard alumnus! But now, disqualifying individual petitions is too tedious a task for them, so they plan to preserve their salaries and control by spending $15,000 (of the members' money) to eliminate the elections which threaten them so, even at the risk of violating chapter 156B sec. 50 of the Mass. Gen. Laws, which provides that "no class (of directors) shall be elected for...a longer period than four years, and the term of office of at least one class shall expire in each year...