* 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic ( d. 1963 )

Although he listened to some country music, especially that of George Jones, Brooks was most fond of rock music, citing James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, and Townes Van Zandt as major influences.

* May 2 – Van Wyck Brooks, American literary critic and writer ( b. 1886 )

* 1937: The Flowering of New England, 1815 – 1865 by Van Wyck Brooks

* Van Wyck Brooks ( 1886 – 1963 ), author.

* Gauguin, Paul ( Brooks, Van Wyck, translator ; 1997 ).

This seemed to support literary critics like Van Wyck Brooks and Vernon Parrington who had condemned James's expatriation and criticised his work as effeminate and deracinated ; Leon Edel used it as the premise of his influential biography which held the field for many years.

James's work has remained steadily popular with the limited audience of educated readers to whom he spoke during his lifetime, and remained firmly in the British canon, but after his death American critics, such as Van Wyck Brooks, expressed hostility towards James's long expatriation and eventual naturalisation as a British citizen.

In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, a 1993 spoof comedy directed by Mel Brooks, Dick Van Patten played the part of the Abbot.

", in exactly the same way Lou did in the Abbott and Costello movies, repeating a joke from Brooks ' Robin Hood sitcom When Things Were Rotten in which Van Patten shouted the line.

The comic play, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, by Neil Simon included thinly disguised versions of Sid Caesar and his staff, as did The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was created by Brooks ' friend and colleague, Carl Reiner ( who would later star in Van Dyke's show as Alan Brady ).

Van Wyck Brooks, Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, and Paul Rosenfeld.

* Van Wyck Brooks publishes The Ordeal of Mark Twain, arguing that Twain's genius was perverted by the conditions and culture of late 19th-century America.

The recording engineer for the album, Brooks Arthur, remembered the sessions in 2009: " A cloud came along, and it was called the Van Morrison sessions.

" Modern literary critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote that Lowell's poetry was forgettable: " one read them five times over and still forgot them, as if this excellent verse had been written in water.

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A famous use of the phrase in American literature is Van Wyck Brooks ' New England: Indian Summer, a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flowering of New England.

The town is a major name on the blues music scene, holding the popular " Maryport Blues Festival " every summer, This has previously attracted names such as Jools Holland, Dionne Warwick, Elkie Brooks, Buddy Guy, Jethro Tull, Van Morrison and Chuck Berry.

Dick Van Patten, who played the Abbot in the film, had previously collaborated with Brooks in a television parody titled When Things Were Rotten, in which van Patten played Friar Tuck.

American literary historian Van Wyck Brooks described it as " an irreplaceable literary record of the most dramatic period in American literary history.

Recently Brooks Hefner revealed heretofore unknown short stories that featured an intellectual criminal, written by Wright under a pseudonym several years before his adoption of the Van Dine pseudonym.

* Brooks, Van Wyck ( 1955 ).

Some of the prominent musicians and bands to play and record the music of Little Feat include Phish, The Black Crowes, The Byrds, The Bridge, Garth Brooks, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Taylor Hicks, Ron Holloway, Keisuke Kuwata, Nicolette Larson, Nazareth, Robert Palmer, The Radiators, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, John Sebastian, Richard Shindell, Carly Simon, Mick Taylor, Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Sam Bush, Coco Montoya, Vince Herman, Inara George, Stephen Bruton, Widespread Panic and Jimmy Buffett.

Noteworthy writers contributing over the years are Isaac Asimov, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Ray Bradbury, Van Wyck Brooks, Arthur C. Clarke, J. Allan Dunn, Bobby Fischer, Alex Haley, Robert A. Heinlein, William Hillcourt, John Knowles, Arthur B. Reeve, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

The first year of the Watson / Thayer Dial alone saw the appearance of Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Burke, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Charles Demuth, Kahlil Gibran, Gaston Lachaise, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Odilon Redon, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks, and W. B. Yeats.

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68 ( January – June 1920 ) Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Randolph Bourne, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, Charles Demuth, Kahlil Gibran, Gaston Lachaise, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Odilon Redon, Paul Rosenfeld, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Gilbert Seldes ( Sganarelle ), Van Wyck Brooks, W. B. Yeats

75 ( July – December 1923 ) Djuna Barnes, Pierre Bonnard, Van Wyck Brooks, Karel Čapek, Adolphe Dehn, André Derain, Roger Fry, Alyse Gregory, Knut Hamsun, Manuel Komroff, Alfred Kreymborg, Julius Meier-Graefe, Marie Laurencin, George Moore, Paul Morand, Luigi Pirandello, Bertrand Russell, Edward Sapir, Georges Seurat, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, Virginia Woolf

* Van Wyck Brooks, American writer and historian

Portrait of Van Wyck Brooks by John Butler Yeats, 1909

Van Wyck Brooks ( b. Plainfield, New Jersey, February 16, 1886 ; d. Bridgewater, Connecticut, May 2, 1963 ) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian.

* 1953: Henry Thoreau, Bachelor of Nature ( by Leon Bazalgette, translated by Van Wyck Brooks )

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Bettles is located 35 miles north of the Arctic Circle just south of the Brooks Range.

The Manhattan Institute launched its Young Leaders Circle program for policy-minded New York City-area young professionals on January 17, 2007 with inaugural speaker David Brooks.

One of the northernmost major rivers in the North America, it drains a remote area of tundra on the north side of the Brooks Range entirely above the Arctic Circle.

The 1976 Broadway revival at the Circle in the Square Theatre was directed by Joseph Hardy, scenery and lighting H. R. Poindexter, costumes by Noel Taylor, production stage manager Randall Brooks, and stage manager James Bernadi.

The Alatna River stems from the central Brooks Range flowing through the Endicott Mountains, passing Circle Lake, the Arrigetch Peaks and Takahula Lake before entering the Helpmejack Hills.

It flows south from Anaktuvuk Pass in Alaska's Brooks Range, into the Koyukuk River at a point near the Arctic Circle.

The winner of the Ann Stanford Prize for Poetry, the Cleanth Brooks Award for creative non-fiction, and the James Dickey Poetry Prize, Tillinghast was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle ’ s Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks co-wrote ( with longtime collaborator Monica Johnson ), directed and starred in a series of well-received comedies, playing variants on his standard neurotic and self-obsessed character.

Richards succeeded in stocking the franchise with a plethora of young talent which included Dave Nicholson, Pete Ward, Ron Hansen ( 1960 AL Rookie of the Year ), Milt Pappas, Jerry Adair, Steve Barber ( 20 wins in 1963 ), Boog Powell, Dave McNally and Brooks Robinson.

During this stretch, the Orioles began to phase out their veteran infield by replacing Davey Johnson and Brooks Robinson with younger stars Bobby Grich and Doug DeCinces, respectively.

Other former Baltimore announcers include Josh Lewin ( currently with New York Mets ), Bill O ' Donnell, Tom Marr, Scott Garceau, Mel Proctor, Michael Reghi, former major league catcher Buck Martinez, and former Oriole players including Brooks Robinson, pitcher Mike Flanagan and outfielder John Lowenstein.

On his website, Brooks states that his potential followers must first prepare by combining the junk food diet with the meditative incantation of five magic " fifth-dimensional " words which appear on his website, some of which are words from Kundalini yoga.

In the " Question and Answer " section of his website, Brooks explains that the " Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese " meal from McDonald's possesses a special " base frequency " and that he thus recommends it as occasional food for beginning breatharians.

In 1997, McLean performed " American Pie " with Garth Brooks at Brooks ' free concert in Central Park in New York City.

CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.

Two years later, Brooks repaid the favor by appearing as a special guest ( with Nanci Griffith ) on McLean's first American TV special, broadcast as the PBS special Starry Starry Night.

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Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

It was a feminist movement in that most of its teachers and students were women ; notable among the founders of the movement were Emma Curtis Hopkins, known as the " teacher of teachers " Myrtle Fillmore, Malinda Cramer, and Nona L. Brooks ; with its churches and community centers mostly led by women, from the 1880s to today.

Since 1989, Brooks has released 19 records in all, which include ; 9 studio albums, 1 live album, 4 compilation albums, 3 Christmas albums and 2 box sets, along with 77 singles.

Brooks graduated in 1984 with a degree in advertising.

" Not Counting You " reached number 2, and then " The Dance " put him at number-one again ; this song's theme of people dying while doing something they believe in resonated strongly and, together with a popular music video, directed by John Lloyd Miller, gave Brooks his first push towards a broader audience.

Similarly, Brooks was influenced by 1970s-era rock of Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen and the operatic rock of Queen with Freddie Mercury.

The success of this album further propelled the sales of his first two albums, enabling Brooks to become the first country artist with three albums listed in the pop top 20 in one week.

Nevertheless, the song often received standing ovations when performed in concert, went to number 22 in the Christian charts through a marketing deal with Rick Hendrix Company, and earned Brooks a 1993 GLAAD Media Award.

" Although Brooks remained polite, he did observe that Yates was obviously unfamiliar with modern country music.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

Unlike Alan Jackson, who refused to return to the UK after being treated in a similar manner by the press, Brooks returned in 1996 for more sold-out concerts, although this time his media appearances were mostly restricted to country radio and interviews with magazines.