Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gill's narrative is broken (at no stylistic loss, in what is a string of vignettes anyway) by some memories of his prep school years, and some from the years at Yale, where the teachers had twinkles in their eyes. A chapter begins with "The reason I waited to marry..."and sidles into a glib and superficial commentary on sexual attitudes in the thirties, a commentary that is all the more awkward for being offered as revelation ("I perceive now that my unmarried teachers at Yale were probably less chaste than the rest of us.") And there are hints...
...papers include the original opening chapter of "The Sun Also Rises," several unpublished chapters from "A Moveable Feast," and F. Scott Fitzgerald's comments on "A Farewell to Arms...
...classic 1888 study of American politics, Lord Bryce titled one chapter "Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents...
...past few years, many fraternities have earned much good will for such community services. But their new image has recently been tarnished by the revival of hazing. At a pre-initiation hazing last fall at the Zeta Beta Tau chapter at New Jersey's Monmouth College, William Flowers, 19, was suffocated when a 5-ft.-deep mock grave in which he was lying collapsed. At Georgetown University, a fraternity pledge was hospitalized, according to campus rumor, after he was forced to chug-a-lug glass after glass of "purple Jesus," a potent mix of vodka, rum, grape, orange...
...case of the pardoned President, will long be debated. But certainly for Richard Nixon, as well as for his convicted coconspirators, Watergate has proved a personal disaster. The verdict was a reason for relief rather than jubilation. But it was a fitting way to close a sorry chapter in U.S. history and to begin a new year...