Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calls to the committee revealed that the anonymous writer was "a reputable member of the faculty," but failed to elicit his name. It appeared to be another chapter in a familiar story; unsubstantiated charges lodged by a man freed from libel by Congressional immunity...
Even the book's title is morbid; it comes from the movie, "King's Row" in which Reagan, discovering that both his legs have been amputated, utters the anguished line, "Where's the rest of me?" And the first chapter begins "with a close-up of a bottom as the newly born Reagan gets whacked into consciousness...
...Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society has decided to raise money for ten Michigan students who were reclassified 1-A for sitting-in last October at a Selective Service office in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...assassination of Abraham Lincoln is one chapter in history that most Americans feel they know by heart. Yet, though it hardly seems possible, this superb big book has found new sources and new perspectives which take on special import in the wake of the assassination in Dallas...
...patience of the man who was dedicated to the idea that a well-constructed narrative should draw to a swift and orderly close. At his seaside villa on Cap Ferrat, going deaf and blind, Maugham complained bitterly at the way time's slow hand was writing his last chapter. "I am sick of this way of life," he said. "I want to die." Earlier this month, he sank into a coma following a stroke. The 91-year-old heart beat six days longer in a hospital outside Nice. And then last week it stopped...