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The expectations for McCourt's follow-up to the best-selling Angela's Ashes were high, and critics are uniformly disappointed: It "lacks the drama, the magic, the gentleness, the lilt of the first book" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). They're quick to point out that 'Tis , which picks up McCourt's life at age 19, once he has left Ireland for America, is not a bad book, it's just not as good as the first.
Lent started with Ash Wednesday, and the belief was that, if one received ashes, one would live to see the end of the year.
Myth Number One: Contrary to what you may have heard or read, although the PRC was not among the 1968 recommendations of the Kappel Commission---appointed by the President to study the future of the Post Office Department---neither did it spring forth like a phoenix from the ashes in some secret conference between House and Senate legislators.
Angela's Ashes
It is not entirely accurate to describe Schur's book as a dictionary, for, although it is in alphabetical order (by Briticism, with the American equivalent in the Index), it combines definitions with descriptions of cultural phenomena (as in the entry for the Ashes , which needs an explanation rather than a mere definition).