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...also, clearly, the most distant. Since the universe is expanding, its parts that are moving fastest must be farthest away. Measured by Hubble's constant, which translates speed into distance, 3C-147 is about 4 billion light-years away from the earth. But Dr. Ira Bowen, director of Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, prefers to say "several billion" lightyears; he suspects that Hubble's constant may not be accurate over such enormous distances...
...Little Girls, her first novel in nine years, Elizabeth Bowen has this to say: Nostalgia is perilous, and the buried past must be only cautiously unearthed. She says it by bringing together three women in their sixties who were close childhood friends. As little girls, they had shared a common experience; as old women, they demonstrate a common, time-sharpened talent for cattiness and cruelty...
This is not Elizabeth Bowen's best novel. It has a kind of pervasive artificiality, partly the result of a contrived plot, partly the result of comic scenes which do not work. It is necessary in a book of this sort that its unfunny point be made with considerable humor, and the humor does not come off. Furthermore, the flashbacks to the girls' life at St. Agatha's stand as the best parts of the book--not because the experiences seem more attractive but merely because the writing is better. Although the uneven quality of storytelling inadvertently reinforces the theme...
...LITTLE GIRLS, by Elizabeth Bowen. A cool, controlled, meticulously written parable of no return. Three old ladies attempt, literally and figuratively, to dig up the secret of their childhood and find only their own damaged selves...
...LITTLE GIRLS, by Elizabeth Bowen. A cool, controlled, meticulously written parable of no return. Three old ladies attempt, literally and figuratively, to dig up the secret of their childhood, and find only their own damaged selves...