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...origins of Hersey's instructional impulses can be found in The Call, a novel cast as the biography of an American missionary in China. It is a subject that is close to home. Hersey was born in Tianjin, the son of Roscoe and Grace Baird Hersey, missionaries serving with the Young Men's Christian Association. Before returning to the U.S. in 1925, when John was eleven, the couple preached a social gospel that emphasized literacy and reform. It was a monumental labor complicated by floods, famines and warlords. Hersey provides the necessary historical overviews, but it is the abundance...
...anything like fully satisfying." Yet all but a few diehards acknowledge the brilliance of the Alvarez work. They believe the iridium layer and subsequent discoveries indicate that impacts of extraterrestrial objects may have played a significant role in certain extinctions, either directly or by delivering a final coup de grace to species already debilitated by climatic changes...
LATER THE SAME DAY, Grace Paley...
...audience sympathizes with Jimmy Stewart's character. As a photojournalist (i.e., professional voyeur) confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he starts to realize how much he enjoys being a spectator--and if we didn't, then what would we be doing at the movies, gaping at Grace Kelly as Stewart's girlfriend...
...With the grace and poise of champions, the netwomen meticulously, the netwomen meticulously tore apart their outclassed opponents--never allowing the Big Red so much as a flicker of hope...