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...notary public, drunk, author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler. Whatever else he was, or wasn't, he unceasingly recorded the early Northwest. Winter Brothers is Seattleite Ivan Doig's memoir of his bloodbrotherhood with this remarkable pioneer via the millions of words he left behind...
...everything around us. Winter Brothers is an astonishing effort to make sense out of a region, both historical and geographical, even as it begins its modern development. One finds here a vibrant, keenly felt consideration of what it means to live in the Northwest--or anywhere, for that matter. Ivan Doig brings the sense of space and time to a wonderful new tingle...
...less competitive schools, a projected decline in the number of 18-year-olds caused a scramble for applicants, Steve Ivan, a statistician for the College Board, said Monday...
...Analysts have been forecasting doom since 1973, but enrollment has increased all across the board since then," Ivan said. But statistics also show that 132 colleges closed between 1970 and June 1979. "Ultimately it is quite difficult to assess whether optimism is realistic or foolhardy," Ivan added...
...moral force -and he was once one of the great comic-strip exemplars of righteousness tied to a short fuse-appears sicklied o'er with the pale cast of self-absorption. The rest of the characters-excepting Swee'Pea (played by Altman's grandchild, Wesley Ivan Hurt)-are blurs of lost innocence...