Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Claus of Wisconsin's Conservative Club: "You walk around with your Goldwater button, and you feel the thrill of treason." One big persuader is professorial pressure of "liberalism, liberalism, liberalism -the most illiberal thing that students meet on campus," says English Professor Bennett Weaver, sponsor of the Y.A.F. chapter at the University of Michigan...
...best chapter in this group is the one on Dickens. Comparing Fagin to all the other Jew-villains in English literature, Rosenberg notes the vital difference: "Marlowe's and Shakespeare's Jews assert themselves actively against their persecution and regard it as a source of terror. The point is that none of them can be sensibly appreciated without an awareness of the restrictions which prevent them from participating fully in the social world. There comes a point at which Barabas, the professional poisoner, ceases to be a satanic figure and can lecture Ferneze on the conditions of injustice without immediately...
...contributions to Advance have nothing whatever to do with U.S. politics, and they are the better for it. One is a chapter from Henry Kissinger's new book (The Necessity for Choice), a clear, well-reasoned analysis of "The Stakes in Germany." The place to deal with the article is actually not here but in a review of the entire book, but George F. Gilder's "A Test Ban--The Possibilities for Arms Control" certainly ought to be mentioned. It is by far the most sensible synthesis of arguments and proposals for and against banning nuclear tests that I have...
...still snowing, and they had the nets up"). His conclusion: "This isn't a requiem for a heavyweight. I'm coming back next week. I don't know what we're going to do, but tune in on the next chapter, because this might be the greatest soapless soap opera you've ever seen...
...more than a fine literary record of Gann's own career as a commercial pilot, reaching back to the days of open-cockpit biplanes "and the strangely pleasant odor of wood and shellacked fabric, of which our airplanes were made." It is a testament to lost friends. Every chapter is darkened with the memory of fatal crashes. The dedication lists 397 "old comrades with wings forever folded...