Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fran Lynch survived professional football for more years than did a host of more famous names -- Gale Sayers, Earl Campbell, Larry Brown. He lasted until 1975 when a leg injury, so debilitating it was thought he might never walk again, ended his career at the age...
...vicissitudes of Archer's life have already been put to use in his novels. An Oxford student who in 1969 became the youngest Member of Parliament, at age 29, he had to resign five years later after bad investments left him near bankruptcy. He turned to writing, and loosely based his first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, on his experience. A main character in First Among Equals, who becomes Prime Minister in the considerably altered U.S. version, also suffers severe financial reverses...
...high-handed, moderate Republicans from the Eastern Establishment, and they ran the party -- and the nation -- during the Eisenhower years, combining a progressive outlook on social issues with a pragmatic one on international affairs. They are nearly all gone now, shunted aside by the more populist conservatism of the Age of Reagan. One of the last of that breed, the soft-spoken, easygoing Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland, is leaving the Senate in exactly the manner in which he served there: with quiet detachment and dignity...
...unemployment figures or, even worse, written up in the police blotters of local papers. Dubus may have decided that such wasted lives are America's fault; he may even be right. But the case made by his fiction is far more complex and intriguing. In Rose, a nameless middle-age narrator starts chatting casually about a fellow habitue of Timmy's, a neighborhood bar in a town, once again in Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. Her name is Rose; she is disheveled, disreputable, and she has a past that she confides to her barfly acquaintance one snowy Friday night...
...credit, the equipment and the expertise to play in the new market, the times seem utopian. One Manhattan-based private investor who is viewed with awe on Wall Street for his financial acumen is claiming that the U.S. and the world are on the "threshold of a new golden age of capitalism...