Word: brook
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...something about this reaction-not only to the story itself but also to Boris Chaliapin's cover portrait. Concerning the latter, a college English professor has written us: "Boris Chaliapin has caught the essential things we have learned to revere about the poet: birches, a wall, a running brook, and above all, the searching friendliness of his eyes...
Some of the nation's best artists, among them Max Weber, Georgia O'Keeffe, Franklin Watkins and Alexander Brook, were not in the show at all. Others were represented badly. Edward Hopper, who finds it almost impossible to paint a dull picture, contributed an old one instead. His Night Conference, like Hirsch's Nine Men, was a standout at last year's Carnegie exhibition and also at the Met. Andrew Wyeth, generally the realest of the young realists, sent a vapid study of a curiously costumed boy on a bicycle adorned with a red, white & blue...
...suggestion of a withdrawal was invariably to suspect that it was motivated by lack of courage, and that his most usual attitude . . was to reject [it] offhand." But his generals' postwar charge that he "acted entirely by intuition . . . was inaccessible to rational considerations and did not brook contradiction ... is [not] borne out by these documents...
...hands with government officials and army men. "Never," said Defense Attorney Beechenor of the prosecution's case, "have I heard so much made of so little." At bottom it seemed that the Rangoon regime, which mortally hates and fears the Karens and other hill-country minorities, could not brook Seagrave's refusal to make political distinctions...
...deposits from $219 million to $2.3 billion. Gibson, who works as hard as any of his banking colleagues, and at 68 plays harder than most of them, still finds time to salmon-fish and ski (see cut), was once Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's Meadow Brook Hounds. He has poured more than $300,000 of his own money into his home town of North Conway, N.H., to make it a leading ski center in the U.S. (TIME...