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Real life in this novel is even more complex, funny and fascinating than its mock fairy-tale frame. Atwood's latest novel involves three college acquaintances' entanglements with evil: Roz, the daughter of successful Jewish immigrants; Tony, a historian of warfare; and Charis, a believer in aura and the virtues...

Author: By Ann M. Mikkelsen, | Title: Fairy Tales Unbridled | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

Brady, of course. never had the flair the dash that Curley had. but Curley never pulled off a one-shot deal of such magnitude as quite a few people feel that Brady might have. Even if one does not have a Curley-like charis?na the alleged the? of $800...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Crime The Canonization of George Brady | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

Charis, the daughter, comes to a kindlier mating, though not exactly as she does in Shakespeare's version. Her true love does not wash ashore from a shipwreck, but paddles in from a seaplane that has run out of gas. He is not a prince but a successful British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teapot Tempest | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

So wrote Saint Paul, to whom God's grace was one of the cornerstones of his religion. In his epistles he referred to charis (grace) 100 times. What is grace? Neither the Apostles' nor the Nicene Creed defines it, and the nature of grace has been the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Grace of God | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Married. Helen Charis Wilson, 24, daughter of Novelist Harry Leon Wilson (Ruggles of Red Gap); and her employer, famed U. S. Photographer Edward Weston, 54; at Elk, Calif. Said Father Wilson, 72: "I'm sure the difference in their ages should make no difference in their happiness."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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