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From page 23 of McCafferty’s first novel: “He’s got dusty reddish dreads that a girl could never run her hands through. His eyes are always half-shut. His lips are usually curled in a semi-smile, like he’s in on a big joke that’s being played on you but you don’t know...
...novel also enjoys a fascinating historical context. “Love in a Cold Climate,” along with Mitford’s other semi-autobiographical novels, began the onslaught of Mitford memoirs, autobiographies, documentaries, and television dramatizations that the London Evening Standard termed “The Mitford Industry...
...certainly adds an additional cost to the prospect of committing a crime.There are also dramatic implications for those of us who write—and I don’t just mean those with newspaper columns. House open lists, course discussion forums and Facebook profiles are all public or semi-public records, and all are likely archived to varying degrees, either by Google, by the powers that be at Harvard, or by others inadvertently. How long will it be before some of our children are high school students with Facebook accounts of their own? Will we be their friends? Will...
...relations offensive hasn't quite managed to close the gap between what critics say it is about and its own version of the story. On one side there is "Octopus Dei," or, as the current issue of Harper's magazine puts it, "to a great extent ... an authoritarian and semi-clandestine enterprise that manages to infiltrate its indoctrinated technocrats, politicos and administrators into the highest levels of the state." On the other is the portrait painted by Opus' U.S. vicar Thomas Bohlin, who sat for several hours with TIME at his group's Manhattan headquarters. Opus, he explained, is just...
...relations with their families. The music they play and the publications they read are allegedly controlled, and they must report their own and others' deviations as part of a system of "fraternal correction." Center directors are portrayed as little dictators. Complaining to local bishops is futile because of Opus' semi-independent status. The critics claim that when the numeraries try to leave, they are threatened with damnation. Experts who have helped extract the disaffected have likened center life to a cult. And Martin, the America editor, contends that he gets "dozens" of calls yearly from parents saying the group...