Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his days as "czar"' of Woodrow Wilson's War Industries Board to the days when he presented to the U.N. the U.S.'s "Baruch Plan" for control of atomic energy. She also uses Baruch as a peg on which to hang gratuitous, chapter-length histories of Woodrow Wilson's Administration, World Wars I and II. the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, etc. Standing at the cribside of modern history, Author Coit is footnotoriously conscientious, but the $7.50 tag her publishers have placed on her services is a steep rate even for a scholarly baby sitter...
...glasses. "I am going to read the first and part of the second chapter of my novel--it hasn't got a name yet--and then I'd like you to discuss it. This novel, I hope, will present a picture of various dilemmas of the artistic mind." He began reading. His low, somewhat hoarse voice uttered each word as though he were a father examining a newborn child, and when he had finished, he looked up expectantly...
Like her big-eyed heroine. Author Salaman, who now lives in London, was born and raised in the Ukraine. Her re-creation of childhood is movingly written and preserves the old Russia-with its endless talk, fumbling aspirations and comfortable inefficiency-like a giant in amber. The final chapter tells of the coming of the 1917 Revolution, when all the earnest, high-flown talkers pour into the streets with visions of a newly created heaven on earth. The last lines of the novel make a heartbreakingly ironic point: "We were outside our front door. Father took off his bowler...
...Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has announced the election of seven seniors...
...indefatigable worker, Zeinab Wali organized Nigerian Girl Guide and Brownie units, preached subtle emancipation propaganda on a weekly radio program called "Women's Chapter," and actively encouraged other women to be less timid and go for drives in her blue-black Vauxhall sedan. To women friends walled up in purdah in their compounds, she slips secret messages about the beauties of the world outside. Her description of birds and flowers so fascinated one friend, the wife of a Cabinet minister in Kaduna, that the wife screwed up her courage, presented Zeinab's letter to her husband and demanded...