Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began on a rather relaxed basis early in his 28-year career in the Navy. The first full-length book he wrote on the part-time author, part-time serviceman plan was as a humorous description of life at sea, put together in such a way that each chapter is a complete unit, and therefore much more attractive to the eye of a magazine publisher hunting for reprint possibilities. Lederer describes this approach to writing as a concession to the trade's "economic perils...
...undergraduate organization more "liberal" than the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union is in the making. Earlier this week, nine students met here in the first attempt to form a local chapter of Students For a Democratic Society...
...River. Nesmeyanov is a world-famed organic chemist, and certainly capable of dreaming impressive scientific dreams. But the book that Komsomolskaya Pravda's reporters assembled is singularly meager in scientific imagination. One chapter predicts for the 21st century the mechanization of mines-which is already an accomplished fact in many non-Communist countries. Another tells about hydroelectric stations very run-of-the-river examples, that will be built in 50 years in Siberia. A chapter on surgery describes techniques and operations that have been standard in the outside world for many years. Almost the only unfamiliar glimpse...
Perhaps his most significant remarks are contained in a detailed, original, and persuasive chapter, "Myths and Realities of the French Economy." At the start he observes coldly that "so peculiar does the economy appear that the best observers end by changing it entirely on pretext of describing it." (This is a direct stab at Herbert Luethy, author of the very widely-read France Against Herself. Luethy devotes considerable space to a description of French economic stagnation.) In economics, as in no other field, (says Aron) legends and inaccurate conclusions thrive. Some of the most prevalent myths are that industrial production...
...controversy, I like to refer to a 1910 essay by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War. This was followed in 1926 by a delightful story by Richard J. Walsh called When the Earth Trembled. For that matter, one can find traces of the idea in the tenth chapter of Luke...