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This intrusion of a messy, brutal reality into the realm of art lends this book its stunning force. To use the words of one character, the story "floats...off the page, defying the cramped letters that frame it, spilling out into life." Few 25-year-olds demonstrate Peck's intimacy with the painful facts of death and loss, and fewer can write about them with this much grace and power. Martin and John gives evidence of a prodigious, promising talent...
...realm of dessert, the only happening thing is tiramisu, which comes to us from Italy via a brief craze in Japan. Even our gossip has to be imported, since we lack homegrown equivalents of the topless, toe-sucking, dysfunctional royals...
...basic laws of heredity. Stanley Jaki of New Jersey's Seton Hall University is both priest and physicist. He believes that science can describe the Big Bang beginning of the universe but is incapable of fathoming the ultimate origins of matter and energy, which will always come under the realm of religion. George Coyne, a Jesuit astrophysicist who directs the Vatican Observatory, warns against reducing science to religion, or vice versa. For instance, when the Big Bang theory was brand new, Pope Pius XII wrote that "scientists are beginning to find the finger of God in the creation...
Scrooge's one friend is his ex-partner Marley. Now residing in some realm of hell, Marley arrives on the scene to save Scrooge's soul. That is, after all, what friends are for. Marley resorts to scare tactics and sends three ghosts to "urge" Scrooge towards a righteous Christmas spirit...
Another opinion voiced by many at the meeting was that reform in the final clubs will not change fundamental flaws in the broader realm of Harvard student social life, the club member said...