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...following Ruth and Eddie and Ted and assorted friends and lovers as they grow older. But nearly everything that happens in A Widow for One Year is foreshadowed or present in embryonic form in the novel's long opening section. Irving's use of suspense is peculiar and intriguing. The question he poses is seldom what will happen next; for example, he spills the beans quickly that Marion will reappear in the story 37 years after it begins. But this information is strictly between author and reader; the characters, realistically enough, are left in the dark. As Ruth begins imagining...
...address to the packed Science Center B auditorium, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson called the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe "peculiar...
...avoid that question and move on to: the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company presents dancers for dancers' sakes. No more "passion sequences" a la 70s mainstage musicals. This is the real thing: bits from all over, Bach's Toccata in Fugue, Rhapsody in Blue, Firebird, and Mainly Jazz's peculiar Starbucks blend. Both April 17 and 18, 8 p.m., at the Reiman Dance Center...
Wang, who has taken the Putnam for the pastfour years and participated in other mathematicscompetitions in high school, said the Putnamcompetition seems peculiar in its system ofgrading...
...someone is good at doing this peculiar job of being a literary scholar, [not to have that talent used] is an unbelievable waste of a lot of time and money and passionate energy and longing and dreams," he says...