Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question of whether Ezra Pound will occupy the footnotes or the chapter headings of future literary history depends, as Biographer Norman concludes, on the poetic merits of the Cantos, a monumental 40-year-long work in progress that has now consumed more writing time than Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past combined. The Cantos are concerned with all history, 20th century history, Pound's personal story, and an eclectic sampling of all he has read. In effect, it is the poetical twin to Finnegans Wake. In sections laden with socio-economic bafflegab, multilingual word play and telegraphic truncations...
Meeting behind closed doors with O'Connor were Beer, Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, Abram J. Chayes, professor of Law, and two members of the Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action...
...Burnet-Medawar discovery, hailed in the Nobel citation as "a new chapter in experimental biology," has no direct medical use. But it represents a long step closer to the day dreamed of by many doctors when surgeons will be able to shift hearts, lungs, kidneys and even limbs from one body to another...
Philip's greatest achievement was what he called the Oratory. It started as a simple gathering of priests and laymen, meeting to pray, read and discuss spiritual matters. Gradually it grew into a full-fledged community, with its own church and chapter house and a program for giving food and shelter to pilgrims. During the Jubilee Year of 1575, according to contemporary accounts, the Oratory opened its doors to 144,913 visitors and served 365,132 meals. The musical form, oratorio, derives its name from Philip's community, where it was partly developed by Florentine Composer Giovanni Animuccia...
Suicides & Storms. Though the whole of Morison's history displays U.S. productive might and organizing skill as decisive in both oceans, this last chapter is as full as all the others of men's ordeal by storm and by battle. When Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey led his fleet into its second typhoon in six months, a court of inquiry urged that he be transferred "to other duty," and Navy Secretary Forrestal was only dissuaded from retiring the Navy's No. 1 popular hero by the argument that to do so would boost enemy morale. Battered...