Word: farrar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...indications that this Crimson squad has begun to gel after back-to-back years of solid recruiting. “We’re really getting used to playing together,” Connolly said. “We’re comfortable with the rotations coach Farrar is using, which is really encouraging heading into MIT this Thursday.” With concrete objectives and three months to grow together, this constantly improving Harvard squad will look to continue making strides in the pool. Harvard faces a tough MIT team on Thursday before hosting the ECAC championships...
...tremendous power in American fiction. She's the author of Housekeeping, a transcendently weird, overpoweringly sad book that was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1982, and Gilead, which won it in 2005, almost a quarter-century later. When Robinson writes--as she does in her new novel, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 325 pages)--that the white hair of a sleeping old man is "like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off by the endless work of dreaming," her similes are so precise and so beautiful that one knows one should not be bored. In her essays, Robinson...
...fiction works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 265 pages), James Wood tells a story from Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March, a novel that since its publication in 1932 has probably been read by only two people, namely James Wood and Joseph Roth. A military officer visits his servant, who is on his deathbed. When the officer enters, the old servant tries to click his heels together, even though he is under the covers and his feet are bare. It's a moment of deep, lancing pathos, when you seem to take in both characters' entire lives for an instant...
Blount has written introductions for six editions of Twain's work. His next book, Alphabet Juice, will be published in October by Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...team had ever encountered. Eight games against nationally ranked opponents. Three five-game weekends. Two overtime thrillers. After all was said and done, the Crimson emerged with a solid display of depth, as veterans and newcomers alike combined to lead Harvard to its best finish under head coach Erik Farrar. Co-captains Michael Byrd and Chris Ludwick provided the experience to carry the young squad through its taxing schedule, while the exuberance of youth propelled the Crimson to unexpected highlights. Sophomores Spencer Livingston and Egen Atkinson each had breakout seasons, scoring 48 and 20 goals, respectively. Livingston lived...