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...brief summary of "The Life and Times of Cliff Hillegass...
...Chapter One: The Beginning 1919: Clifton Keith Hillegass is born in Rising City, Nebraska, not far from Lincoln. His father was a rural mail carrier and his mother raised gladioli...
...Chapter Three: First Notes 1958: Following a friend's urging, and ignoring naysayers, Hillegass uses a $4,000 loan to publish his initial batch of Notes. In one year, he sells 58,000 copies...
Paragraph 14: In the denouement, Cliff Hillegass gives his "goal of education" speech. This is a foreshadowing of Kim's conclusion to the article...
...would founder Cliff Hillegass want anyone to restrict themselves to the Notes's digestion of a book. He reminds students in the "Note to the Reader" prefacing each edition, "The goal of education is not the unquestioning acceptance of any single interpretation...