Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Otherwise was first printed in England in 1932) obviously had great fun making history come out differently. A great part of the reader's amusement in reading these revisionist fantasies lies in arguing with the authors. Knowing a bit of history helps, but the editor tactfully prefaces each chapter with a paragraph or so of authentic history to remind dullards of the actual date, say, of Kaiser Wilhelm's accession to power and what really happened at Sarajevo...
...Detroit, for example, Claud Young, head of the Michigan chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, wants the $200,000 earmarked by the school board for busing plans to be used instead to improve the schools, particularly in the area of vocational training. Young also opposes busing on the pragmatic ground that the reaction would make South Boston "look like a warmup." Still, Detroit, which has a 70% black enrollment, may face busing next fall. Last summer the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Detroit plan to merge the city and suburban schools, and ordered the school board to come...
...style of The Clockwork Testament should be familiar to all those who read A Clockwork Orange fast, sometimes elliptical, with a rich vocabulary and interesting experiments in portmanteau. But sometimes the prose, which includes filmscript-writing and traceries of stream of consciousness, becomes artificially lofty and burdensome. One chapter, a transcript of Enderby's appearance on the late-night Sperr Lansing Show, is a failed satire of the transcriber's inadequacy, with misspellings like ecommunionicle, kwelled, teetotal Aryan, and Alice in Windowland. And the final chapter, some sort of object-lesson conducted from the future by Educational Time Trips...
Diane Lund, assistant professor at the Law School, and Regina Healey, instructor at the Radcliffe Institute, who in 1971 drafted Chapter 622 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, explained that the Massachusetts Board of Education is still considering how to enforce Chapter 622, which prohibits discrimination in public schools on the basis...
Walzer, who recently returned from a study-tour in Israel, addressed a group of about 50 people at a convention of the Massachusetts chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action...