Word: agar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-flying Eagles were grounded by the tenacious defense of Harvard fullbacks Joan Elliott, Lori Barry and Julie Agar, and stopper Inga Larson...
...this medieval rhetoric gives the book a very clever structure. Louise Agar has spent her 26 failure-ridden years believing in the distant past. But now the "Lord and Lover" has become her employer Giles, instead of Christ. The Treatise fascinates Giles, too--not its ideas, but its language. After losing his sight and his first two wives. Giles hires Louise as a research assistant. His sorrows, his grouchy promiscuity, and his insecurities as a scholar leave him totally unprepared for her chaste, almost religious adoration. Unless he can deal with his miserable past, his budding love affair is doomed...
DIED. Herbert Agar, 83, historian and newspaper editor who championed democratic ideals in books like the Pulitzer-prizewinning The People's Choice (1933), and Land of the Free (1935) and A Time for Greatness (1942), and served during World War II as the director of the British division of the Office of War Information; in Sussex, England...