Word: brooking
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...Beneath their cool New England exteriors, Alonso hints, Emerson and Thoreau-and Bronson-were as gloriously crazy as his own Don Quixote. He knows how consciences can cramp under strain, how idealism can gnarl the mind. He is not joking when he compares the 19th century Utopian experiment at Brook Farm with a Massachusetts mental hospital of today...
...plan proposed running the subway underground to Porter Square and then on the surface to Alewife Brook Pankiway...
...Malice. Unlike Hal Hoi brook in his Mark Twain Tonight, Whitmore does not attempt to achieve a flesh-tinted, bone-perfect reproduction of Rogers, nor does he even speak with Rogers' casual, careless Oklahoma drawl. What he tries for, and succeeds in evoking, is a psychic affinity with the wit of the Western corral, a man whose comic spirit always had a visible edge but no sting of malice, a man who could toss off a one-liner like, "I could have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to talk to a Congressman...
Take Mass, Ave to Alewife Brook Parkway and follow to Interstate 93 Go north in a pleasant drive, forty minutes away is Rockingham Park and some fine racing...
Died. Dr. Gertrude Rand Ferree, 84, who with her late husband Dr. Clarence Ferree made major strides in the study of human vision; in Stony Brook, N.Y. Co-holder of a dozen patents for lighting devices, optical and ophthalmological instruments, she played a major role in the development of the famed Hardy-Rand-Rittler color plates (numerals outlined by dots in subtly shaded hues) universally used to identify types of color deficiency and color blindness...