Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McKay is not the only half-truth in the novel; Louis Agassiz, a Harvard professor in the 1850s and the national biologist in a golden age of zoology, plays a small but acidulous part in the book. "I have been accused of character assassination," McMahon says, "but in fact his character is a lot worse than I said. He was famous for exploitation of the young people in the museum, for signing his name to their work. The accusations came so credibly and so often, that even his biographer concluded there is a lot of truth to them...
...young Charles is shuttled back and forth from his native Asia to the French countryside. As a youngster, he learns the tools of his trade quickly, throwing the blame for his own plots on others and magically convincing those around him to do what he asks. By the age of 24, Sobhraj is a man disowned by both father and nation, befriended only by a lone Frenchman named Felix, who annoyingly returns to save the prison-bound Charles time and time again. This is not a nice young man. "You should have let him stay in prison," Charles' father warns...
Channel 7 news will predict the next mayor from student data shortly after the polls close, Steve Teichner, president of TAI, said yesterday. The questionnaire asks the voter's choice for mayor, reasons for that choice, opinions on major campaign issues and age, sex and income...
...next day of the meet, Beckford blazed through the age group mile in 4:51.2. just missing the gold medal by one-tenth of a second...
...mainly they kept returning because Celtics basketball is an organized religion, with 13 green-and-white icons hanging from the Garden roof and a list of saints, identified only by the kelly-green number that they once wore, dangling from the skylights. And in this dimlylit, age-crusted catacomb, the faithful wait for the NCAA to part with a titanic saviour, someone with arms long enough and stats big enough to rescue the team. After all, except for the last few years the Celtics have always been basketball's chosen people: you can forgive their fans for hoping...