Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many moons ago, when a tribe of Haida Indians was searching for a new camp site, a famed chief named Jumping Brook led the way to Kitimat, a coastal flatland in the rugged northwest portion of what is now British Columbia. Two aspects of the Kitimat site appealed to Chief Jumping Brook. It was near the sea (the Haidas built ocean-going canoes), and there was plenty of fresh water in the chain of lakes and rivers a short distance inland...
Last week, some 400 years after Jumping Brook's time, the Aluminum Co. of Canada, Ltd. followed the chief's reasoning in putting Kitimat at the center of a vast new West Coast industrial project. Alcan signed an agreement with the British Columbia government on water rights for a $500 million power development and aluminum plant in the Kitimat area...
...paid too heavily, in inner hardness and human loss, for the world's prizes. Even between him and the daughter he loves there is a gulf, now widened by her engagement to another such aging man of distinction as himself. Numb and parched, Josiah Bolton (Clive Brook) casts about for an unobtrusive way to die. But in time his daughter (Margaret Phillips) makes him feel her need...
...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...