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agony extreme mental or physical suffering.agony column originally (in the mid 19th century) the column of a newspaper containing special advertisements, particularly those for missing relatives or friends, and thus containing evidence of great distress. Later (the current meaning), it became a... Read more
Gethsemane Gethsemane
Gethsemane , olive grove or garden, E of Jerusalem, near the foot of the Mount of Olives. In the Gospels, it is the scene of the agony and betrayal of Jesus. A number of sites in the area of the Garden are tended by representatives of the Christian tradition. The Franciscan Basilica of the Agony is... Read more
Christopher Lasch Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch , 1932-94, American historian, b. Omaha, Neb., grad. Harvard, 1956, Ph.D., Columbia, 1961. After teaching at the Univ. of Iowa (1961-66) and Northwestern Univ. (1966-70), he became a professor of American history at the Univ. of Rochester. In his early works, The New Radicalism in... Read more
Nathanael West Nathanael West
West, Nathanael, the pseudonym of Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein (1903–40), American novelist, is known principally for two macabre and tragic novels, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), the story of a heavy-drinking agony columnist, and The Day of the Locust (1939), a satire of Hollywood life.... Read more
Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat 1969– Novelist “Death Was Always Around Us” Degrees from Barnard, Brown National Book Award Nominee Selected writings Sources “Image not available for copyright reasons” Edwidge Danticat is one of only a handful of contemporary novelists of... Read more
Johann Friedrich Overbeck Johann Friedrich Overbeck
Johann Friedrich Overbeck , 1789-1869, German religious painter. Expelled from the Vienna Academy because of his opposition to its classicism, he went to Rome and with Peter von Cornelius, Veit, Schadow-Godenhaus, and others, formed the group known as the Nazarenes . His first real successes were... Read more
Eros Eros
Eros , in Greek religion and mythology, god of love. He was the personification of love in all its manifestations, including physical passion at its strongest, tender, romantic love, and playful, sportive love. According to some legends he was one of the oldest of the gods, born from Chaos and... Read more
Sean OFaolain Sean OFaolain
Seán O'Faoláin , 1900-1991, Irish writer. The relation of the individual to society was often the theme of his novels and stories. He frequently wrote about Ireland, analyzing the nation's agony in adjusting past history with present reality. O'Faoláin was probably best known... Read more
Passion cycle Passion cycle
Passion cycle in art, the depiction of the last events in the life of Jesus. The Passion was a favorite subject of medieval and Renaissance artists and was considered the most ambitious of projects. The scenes depicted generally include the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the washing of his feet,... Read more
Louis Gaufridi Louis Gaufridi
Godfrey (or Gaufridi) (d. 1611) A priest of Provence, France, who was accused of seducing several women, one of them a nun. To save herself the nun asserted that Godfrey had bewitched her. Arrested and imprisoned, Godfrey was tortured until he confessed that he was a magician and that he had,... Read more

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Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) ...this year's preseason No. 2 team Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach. Marmonte rivals...a class that has not forgotten the agony of being upset in last year 's semifinals...Area boys' water polo team (from left): Forest Monroe, Loyola; Peter...

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