Word: flye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Metcalf, who ventured into the new world without his fiancee, wrote an enthusiastic letter back to her four months after his arrival. He had already purchased land, found the other inhabitants pleasing, and complained only of, "a little flye caled a misketo that...bites like a midge," but even those could be kept out of the house with smoke pots, he guaranteed. Ending his plea with, "May ye Lord bles you, and conduct you safe hither," his story becomes just one of Bailyn's many revealing glimpses into...
Along the way, the "captive poet," as his editor at TIME called him, wrote hundreds of letters-to Father James Harold Flye, his high-church Episcopal mentor at St. Andrew's School in Tennessee, who remained his confidant from the time Agee was ten, to old classmates at Phillips Exeter and Harvard, to his three wives and countless lovers, to all the women who satisfied what he confessed was a "run-to-Mama" complex...
...Agee had a canny sense for self-preservation that almost, though not quite matched his talent for self-destruction. He was forever negotiating with a series of authority figures: God, Father Flye, Time Inc. Indeed, Bergreen concludes, Agee cast Time in the multiple roles of "his home, his school, his monastery," to the bewilderment of fellow employees like Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin and Robert Fitzgerald...