Word: brooking
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...Hampshire, where his grandfather would shake his lantern at lightning and dare God to strike him down. But it was Lowell, Mass., where he was born and raised, that enraptured Kerouac. It was the whole lost prewar world of Friday-night beers, Saturday ball games, dips in the brook, Krazy Kat, horror movies and 1930's popular culture. There was also football. Kerouac was a talented running back, in high school and at Columbia, where he dropped the game in favor of the literary life...
...Roof. Richard Brooks directed and adopted the Tennessee Williams play for the screen. Perfectly cast, with Paul Newman as Brick, an honorable but emasculated cripple, Elizabeth Taylor as his frustrated wife Maggie (the cat), and Burl Ives as his father Big Daddy, whose death and inheritance all the family save Brick and Maggie yearn for. One of the more palatable of the Williams films, and Brook's best...
Governor Francis W. Sargent proposed Wednesday night a $2 billion public transportation program for the Boston area, including the extension of the Red Line subway from Harvard Sargent to the Alewife Brook Parkway...
...Waste Management, Inc. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., W.M.I, this year acquired 50 companies in 16 states and Canada, making it the fastest-grow-ing garbage concern in the country. Its revenues reached $51 million in 1972's first nine months. In Pompano Beach, Fla., the company operates an advanced processing plant in which garbage is ground into odor-free shreds and sent by conveyor belt to a nearby landfill...
Jung's Nightmare. Langham is performing an act of reviving violence. He is doing to the polite 19th century conventions of Greek tragedy what directors like Peter Brook have done to the polite 19th century conventions of Shakespeare. Pseudo-traditional versions of Oedipus are staged as refined pageants. Directors assign masks, write long program notes about catharsis, and advise their puzzled Oedipuses to express hubris, which generally leaves them looking like damaged Roman coins. Langham has cut through the decorum of Greek revival to present Oedipus as a nightmare by Jung...