Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seattle it was soon decided that the only way to set up a successful program -backed by newspapers, radio and TV-was to make it free. To foot the bills the city's United Good Neighbors' Polio Trust Fund donated $185,000, the local chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis gave $30,000, and the county public health department agreed to pay for all vaccine used for persons under 20. Hoping to needle some 300,000 people in two weeks, the King County (Seattle) Medical Society rounded up 1,000 of its 1,200 members, plus...
Much more typical is the question that asks for a discussion of a small part of a course, covered by a lecture or two and perhaps a chapter in the reading. These demand no more than memory, even for the strictest grader, although the student who had thought about the problem or done some extra work might get an A or even an A+ on a rare exam...
This approach, combining as it does generalization and detail, broadens the book's appeal, and its value, too. The chapter on the conviction of Abner Kneeland for blasphemy (one of Shaw's worst decisions), for example, will attract anyone interested in the history of civil liberties; and even the more technical opinions in the various railroad cases can be appreciated as evidence of the way in which strong judges fostered industrial expansion in the first half of the nineteenth century...
Unfortunately, Mr. Levy concludes with a repetitive chapter of "Thus-we-have-seen" material, using the same images, the same quotations, and (sometimes) the same sentences. Standing alone, it would make an excellent law review article. Tacked in its present position, however, it needlessly mars an already complete and well-executed scholarly work...
...look-alikes of Chapter 1 are the novel's narrator, a middle-aging English professor of French history named John (no last name), with a queasy bachelor taste of loneliness and failure in his mouth; and the Count Jean de Gué, scapegrace lord of a decaying château and a possessive family at St. Gilles in Normandy...