Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who believes that the symbolic meaning of Radcliffe has vanished has probably never been to meetings of the Radcliffe Union of Students. You tend to hear women--no longer entirely starry-eyed about the magic of being here--express feelings such as: "I came to see what Radcliffe could offer me because I felt so disillusioned with Harvard." For reasons like this, Radcliffe must continue to exist, both as a concept and as a specific women's space which allows women to meet each other, to organize (for example, Safety Walk was a product of the Radcliffe Union...
...narrative invention has steadied to a reliable chug. The author's moves are clever and effective, but they are known. Her characters have told the darkest of their secrets. Erdrich's instinct, as the momentum of an anecdote is about to tail off, is to save matters with literary magic. This works, often brilliantly, but it works again and again, which may be a few astonishments too many...
...have heard the bear laugh -- that is the chuffing noise we hear and it is unmistakable. Yet no matter how we strain to decipher the sound it never quite makes sense, never relieves our certainty or our suspicion that there is more to be told." The author's magic, one more time...
...spacey and percussive element I mentioned in the Friday/Seezer/Bono songs and push it way over the top. It doesn't make a good mix tape, either. You'll feel like an extra in "The Dark Crystal" (stuffed into a little gnomish costume), or a New Age convert rediscovering the magic of whale calls. Blech...
...Syria say -- or Israel hear -- the magic words...