Search Details

Word: brook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Some people feel that this has led to a softening of Brustein's intellectual standards. When most conservative critics attacked, for example, Peter Brook's cold, bleak Endgame version of King Lear or his violent Midsummer Night's Dream for imposing alien concepts on the original plays, Brustein hailed them as valuable new perspectives on great works. "Bob is very tolerant toward a real effort on somebody's part to do something," says Epstein. "Even if he disagrees, he'd rather see that than see someone dead from the neck up." Brustein, in fact, has frequently stated that theater should...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Brustein Portrait | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

Coordinators of the study distributed questionnaires to 2076 women and 1271 men undergraduates at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Wellesley College, Barnard College, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, and Brown University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six-College Study Shows Women Have Low Self-Esteem | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

...environmental impact statement (EIS) which was prepared when the MBTA planned to extend the Red Line to Rte. 128. The MBTA claims that this impact statement can be applied to its current extension project, even though the line is planned to go only as far as the Alewife Brook Parkway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Hesitation | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

...hall of the Peoples of the Pacific at the American Museum of Natural History, where she was curator of ethnology. She brought a keen, insatiably curious mind and anthropological insights to bear on the problems of her own society and, with a confidence that made it clear she would brook no arguments, spoke out frequently on social and political problems that many of her colleagues preferred to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Margaret Mead: 1901-1978 | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...FACTS OF THE CASE are simple, on the surface. The MBTA plans to extend the Red Line to the Alewife Brook Parkway by sometime in 1982. Originally, the MBTA wanted to extend the line through Cambridge to Rte. 128, and they commissioned an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for that proposal. The Red Line Alert, a coalition of three neighborhood groups, has filed suit in federal district court, charging that the MBTA violated three federal statutes by applying the old EIS to its new extension plans. The Cambridge City Council has voted to join this suit. Any delays in construction...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Squeaky Wheel on the Red Line | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

Previous | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | Next