Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delighted in describing imaginary feasts at which he had fed on haunch of roasted baby. He invariably insisted that plural marriage was the only natural and proper wedded state for man. Rubbing his hands with glee over his new translation of the Persian love classic The Perfumed Garden (sample chapter: copulation with crocodiles), Burton chortled: "Mrs. Grundy will howl until she bursts, and will read every word with an intense enjoyment...
...mire of quotations becomes particularly difficult in the second half of the first chapter, "Fantasy and Diagnosis," which traces the early influences on Auden's poetry and should be one of the best sections of the book...
...honey-colored presidential palace atop a hill overlooking the capital city of Nicosia, Ball argued for three days with Makarios, a bearded ecclesiastic who might have stepped into the present day from an llth century Byzantine mosaic. Ball quoted chapter and verse to Makarios, showing that the U.N. in previous actions has usually favored the maintenance of the status quo and has repeatedly approved partition as a solution to communal disputes-a solution abhorrent to Makarios and the Greek Cypriots. Throughout the negotiations, Makarios would nod sagely as if agreeing with every point Ball raised. Then he would beatifically repeat...
...famous last chapter of What Is History?, Carr expressed considerable faith in the progress of mankind. Since then, he has been accused of naivete by a number of British historians who find considerably fewer reasons for hope in the modern world. Carr will have nothing to do with them. "I guess you might say I have a sort of faith in the future which is unlikely to be seriously shaken. I have confidence that the world has a direction. I'm not saying, of course, that every move in the game is a step forward, but I would look...
Section One of chapter 76 of the general laws of Massachusetts specifies that children seven to 16 years old must attend school...