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...WILLARD REQUIRES is that her readers suspend all disbelief and accept the element of magic in even the most mundane things. There is really nothing else to be done with a book that begins, "In Paradise, on the banks of the River of Time, the Lord of the Universe." It seems God is quite a pitcher, plucking balls from the bed of the River of Time and hurling curves that change color as they break, determining the future. Either you believe...
THIS SORT of inconsistency is the only major drawback of Things Invisible to See, but it is a big one. It is, essentially, a love story, but a novel that starts off with the Lord of the Universe and His archangels playing hall, and winds up with Mathewson on the mound and Lou Gehrig playing first, seems to call for a lot more baseball than Willard has seen fit to include. She certainly touches on an awful lot of other things, and perhaps it is because she does tackle so much that the leisurely. Saturday-afternoon-pickup...
...broached the Star Wars concept in March 1983. No one quarreled publicly with the notion that the U.S. had the right, under existing security treaties, to conduct a space-defense research program; indeed, the ministers attending the Luxembourg meeting endorsed such an effort unanimously, and NATO's Secretary-General, Lord Carrington, described the discussions as "harmonious and constructive...
...Lord Mountbatten, in a newly released 1961 excerpt of his diary, on the dawning space era: "If there is general disarmament, this will be a wonderful age, but if our ability to control space is solely to be used to increase our destructive capabilities, then I see little chance of the world surviving...
...five Roman Catholic churches around the U.S., the priests and the congregations recite this prayer at Mass before the consecrated bread and wine are distributed: "We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table . . ." The words, unfamiliar to Roman Catholics, come from the Book of Common Prayer, cherished by Anglicans since the first edition of 1549. The passage now forms part of a Vatican-approved hybrid Mass text that...