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...children when they were children, one at a time, standing on a lawn or on a playground, waiting for the ball to reach them. Their hug-me arms waver in the hot, wet air, as if they are attempting to embrace something vast and invisible. Their eyes blink in the sunlight. They stagger and stumble...
Prospective students are especially confused,say admissions officers, who must explain thearcane procedure which admits women to Radcliffeand--"in the blink of an eye," says Director ofAdmissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73--enrollsthem in Harvard...
...They have to save a quarter of a second," she adds. "In the blink of an eye, they can be killed if they don't evaluate [the situation] immediately...
...almost absurd to think that a child in kindergarten could read Watterson's strip, blink twice and say, "I don't get it"--that a child would not understand the essence of childhood...
Fortunately, with Lidie, Smiley proves once again that she can jump through genres with the blink of a metaphorical eye and leaves the `repetitive subject matter' label with the likes of John Grisham and Danielle Steele. She takes the astoundingly courageous story of one pioneer woman, mixes it with a potentially-dry `olde-tyme' writing style and comes up with a tale that takes a few pages to get into, but that takes great effort...