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...cluster of years and experiences, which results in a mercilessly irritating repetition of events. Cheever claims in her introductory note that this purposeful redundancy reveals “an important turning point…through Hawthornes’ eyes and then through Emerson’s or Louisa May Alcott??s before it is finally completely described.” The actual effect is something akin to dozing off over your chem textbook and reading the same page about 20 times. That’s not to say that Cheever’s work is completely devoid...
...only is “literally”one of many misleading terms, but it’s also had multiple meanings for quite a while. The third aforementioned quote–the land literally flowed with milk and honey–comes straight from Louisa May Alcott??s 1868 novel Little Women. And who doesn’t remember Fitzgerald’s description of Jay Gatsby: “He literally glowed?” But neither was the town of Plumfield overrun with food-stuffs nor our favorite social climber actually luminescent. [EDITOR'S NOTE...
...column, Ilyinsky wrote that the quote “the land literally flowed with milk and honey,” which she cites twice, “comes straight from Louisa May Alcott??s 1868 novel ‘Little Women...
...tenured professor to win an award of this caliber. Geraldine Brooks, currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “March,” a novel that imagines a year in the life of the absent father from Louisa May Alcott??s classic, “Little Women.”Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 and Joseph F. Kahn ’87, both former Crimson editors and current writers for The New York Times, won prizes for Commentary and International Reporting, respectively. Playwright Christopher Durang...
...Alcott??s thoughts on one subject ring particularly true this time of year...