Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While on the cruise with hundreds of underdeveloped characters, Jane remains pensive about the significance of her lost friendship with Martha. Soul-searching Jane wonders if the disappearance of indifferent Martha is connected with the hushed Barlow family feud. Darwinian theory, the pacific waters and blue-footed boobies are used to speculate answers...
...cold, somewhat scientific pseudo-Darwinian logic that she falters. There is an insultingly blatant parallel between Darwin's theory of evolution and the evolution of Jane's friendships and identity. There is no mystery about this self-explanatory connection, but at last Schine introduces a secret family feud. However, the writing again makes any interest vanish. Throughout the novel, the rules of algebra and syllogism appear, "If A=(?) and B=(?), then all one has to prove is (?)." The logic is straightforward, giving the reader time for their own conclusions: if chapter 1=(heavy blinking) and chapter 2=(mind shifting) then...
...FEUD OF THE WEEK
...audience of largely Radcliffe alumnae who graduated before the 1977 agreement with Harvard--who recalled spending their days in Cambridge barred from libraries and dining halls--the feud is still...
Yesterday, Donnan made a thoroughly unconvincing effort to downplay his feud with Fulmer...