Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just before a Senate adjournment: The moving finger writes, and the fortuities of politics will probably result in change of some faces when we return in January . . . Old faces go and new faces come, but somehow, like Tennyson's brook, the free Republic continues to go on with vitality, vigor and an energized faith, as it moves to newer heights and newer achievements for its people in the great moral climate of freedom ... So an revoir. We shall see you on the home diamond somewhere; and when it is all over, all the healing waters will somehow close over...
...Meadow Brook National Bank, which in only ten years has boosted its deposits 14-fold to $605 million and has now audaciously set up branches in Manhattan itself...
...mind is never far from the converted stable he uses as a studio. There, either painting from a model or from memory, he turns out nudes, landscapes, portraits and still lifes that are flecked with fragments of earthy humor and yet are generally bathed in sadness. A Brook painting does not scream for attention: the colors are usually subdued and subtly graded, the mood is muted, and the technique is so sure as to be unseen, like an invisible seam...
Teacher in a Cutaway. Brook got some of his first lessons in technique from a character in Manhattan who made his precarious living by doing oil blowups of photo portraits. "He seemed a real artist," Brook recalls, "in a cutaway and striped trousers, working his little brush at breakneck speed. He would produce anything you could imagine-a battleship, a seascape-with dazzling facility." At 16, after a bout with polio that fortunately left no traces, Brook was painting ancient statuary at Pratt Institute; at 17 he enrolled at the Art Students League where in time he became a member...
...Breath. He is out of the public eye these days, neglected by the chichi but not forgotten. The excellent little new museum in Ogunquit, run by Painter Henry Strater, has in past years given similar one-man shows to Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Andrew Wyeth. As an artist, Brook respects such innovators as his fellow Long Islander, the late Jackson Pollock, the master dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists who, he says, display their...