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...mantra, her reassuring magical thought that will keep her daughter alive. But as Quintana moves from hospital to hospital, staying healthy for less than a month at a time, the truth behind the magical thinking refuses to be ignored.So Didion moves on from denial to distraction, obsessively doing crossword puzzles, and alternately losing herself in strings of related memories or trying to avoid sights that bring about such memories. Many are tender scenes of married life, and quite a few are humorous. For example, while waiting to visit Quintana at a hospital in New York, Didion recounts the day when...
...English, as Orwell once observed, celebrate their freedom in small ways: gardening, sports, pets, pubs, stamps, crossword puzzles. Part of this is now patriotic mythology. But part is also the enculturated national DNA to see these things not as trivial but as integral to the life of a free people. These things didn't stop, even during the Blitz, when thousands lived through night after night with the prospect of being incinerated by bombs from the sky. Part of fighting the war, the Brits realized, was military. But part was also a refusal to change a way of life, however...
...lengthy introduction, Schwartz, the Beckwith Professor of Music (Emeritus) at Bowdoin College, explained his recent fascination with maps and patterns as guides for musical journeys. Although he lost much of his audience with an analysis of New York Times crossword puzzles (“This is a very Weber-esque puzzle,” he explained at one point) the samples of musical scores, resembling board games, were fascinating...
...World’s Largest Crossword: Kriss Kross—word...
...world’s largest crossword is in Weld; it’s the property of Grace Tiao ’08. (“15 Down,” 11/4/04...