Word: brooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roll back. In the first 100 years British Columbians managed to plow only about 33% of the available farmland, utilize barely a fraction of their other known natural resources. Yet prosperity is a condition of life, to be greeted with the same calm pleasure as the monster 25-lb. brook trout (in the East a five-pounder is trophy size) hauled from the rivers...
Taking over as the Library of Congress' 1958-59 consultant in poetry in English, white-haired, high-shoed, 84-year-old Robert Frost called himself a "Poet in Waiting," demonstrated before newsmen that the west-running brook is still clear at the source. His job in Washington is to encourage the best American poets, and his problem is "how to select. Whom to favor? Not just somebody who says, 'You know me, Al.' " Allusive modern poetry that "doesn't come to some meaning is born dead. Nobody reads it. They write it only for each other...
...setting of The Bell is a lay community of semi-contemplatives, a kind of British Brook Farm attached to Imber Abbey, which houses an order of enclosed Anglican nuns. Imber is made up of a rather odd parcel of stuffed hairshirts. They include the son of an old military family, who seems to think of heaven as the last outpost of Empire, a mouse and lion husband-and-wife team, a saintly Good-Humored girl, frozen on the outside, soft on the inside. Finally there is the colony's leader, Michael Meade, a tense scoutmaster type who flounders...
...Miriam Paar, Jack's pretty and patient wife, appears at poolside with a dinner tray-brook trout, corn on the cob, string beans, mixed green salad. Jack tops it off with a chocolate sundae garnished with whipped cream and peanuts...
...result of his life at Eton, that he insisted his children be privately tutored. Young John's education was, as he himself says, "most abnormal," and instead of ending up in the army or the government, he found himself a reporter on the Sunday Express. Lord Beaver-brook's editors taught him "all about giving people what they want, not what they should have." Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People is "a sort of bible with...