Word: hagar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hagar (David's grandfather) had made it from Warsaw to Boston Light; Aaron had made it from Boston to Harvard Yard; in more than the journeyman's sense David would be expected to make it to the top of Beacon Hill...
...book, New Wind in a Dry-Land. Although she does not live up to her publishers' extravagant billing, she demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. The character is Hagar Shipley, who mixes past and present indiscriminately, telling now of her efforts to avoid the old ladies' home to which her son wishes to send her, now of the life she led as a girl and a young bride at a bleak crossroads town on the Canadian prairie...
...Cush, of the mud-building Fung people, of temples and heat, where the Nile hurriedly bears its load of diluted loam over transverse ribs of crystalline rock, granite and diorite-the Six Cataracts. Below the Second Cataract, it skids through a 100-mile chute, the Batn el Hagar (Belly of Stones), studded with gleaming black islets. Then below Aswan it enters the Egypt of antiquity. Here the neolithic men of North Africa gathered as the grassy Saharan plains dried up into desert following the Ice Age, and here they acted out the first classic example, according to Historian Arnold Toynbee...
...helped set up the picket lines around Rummel's residence, issued a flurry of mimeographed essays arguing that segre gation is authorized in the Bible. One scriptural text she cited was Genesis 21, which describes how Sara asks Abraham to cast out from his house the Egyptian concubine Hagar, whose son "shall not be heir with my son Isaac." On the assumption that no Egyptian can be white. Mrs. Gaillot argues that this passage "surely must mean no playing together in school." Biblical scholars dismiss her interpretation of this and other texts as ridiculously narrow-minded...