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...chairman, Ford Motor Co. In an age when many industrialists look for the riskless course and too many business spokesmen are puppets of their public relations staff, you have remained a thoroughly authentic outspoken man. Piet Hein, L.H.D., Danish scientist and philosopher who invented the Soma Cube, and the "grook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 3 | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...boyhood moods of scorn, fear, sentimentality, barefootedness and gleeful obscenity. Writes Kerouac at wild random: "A young and silly dove is yakking in the blue, circling the brown and slushy river with yaks of pipsqueak joy," and "the mystery which I now see hugens, huger, into something beyond my Grook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grooking in Lowell | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Grook," the keyword of the novel, always refers to something ominously exciting, not fully understood, worthy of a boy's wonder and solemn respect. Dr. Sax. the hawk-faced, silent, evil-battling spook whom Jack Duluoz invents (and then sees, fearfully, in every dark doorway), gets from place to place by grooking. Dr. Sax plays poker incessantly, has a high, fiendish laugh ("Mwee hee ha ha ha"). And when his stalking of the evil Great World Snake makes it necessary, he pulls a rubber boat out of his slouch hat, pumps it up and paddles across the Merrimack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grooking in Lowell | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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