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The novel "reminds us that even in our own day, it remains, as Henry James said, a complex fate to be an American," says Malcolm Bradbury in the New York Times Book Review . In the New York Review of Books , Gabriele Annan says Johnson's contribution to the innocents-abroad novel is her spirit of lighthearted seriousness: Le Divorce "takes desertion, suicide, and murder in its stride, as though they were merely obligatory literary devices."
This expression appears occasionally throughout the history of inaugurals, but it has hit its stride in recent years.
The 19 th century British gardener Gertrude Jekyll was the first to suggest pairing ferns with daffodils, pointing out that just as the daffodil foliage begins to brown and die back, the fern hits its stride and covers the mess.
Almost half of Madeira’s 270,000 people live in Funchal (pronounced “foon-shawl”), and cruise-ship passengers stride ashore daily for a frenzied flurry of sightseeing and shopping.
Touring the tourist attraction's aviary--in which the birds flew free while visitors strolled in a glass tunnel--I hit my stride.