Brooks Adams was consistent in his admonishments to historians about the necessary tools or insights they needed to possess.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Mr. Brooks was born in New York, and came to Portland in 1920.

After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

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.

The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.

Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft.

Additionally, Brooks Robinson was named Most Valuable Player in 1964, just two years before the 1966 – 1983 golden era began.

Brooks ' style was generally slapstick and zany in nature, often parodying film styles and genres, including Universal horror films ( Young Frankenstein ), westerns ( Blazing Saddles ) and Hitchcock films ( High Anxiety ).

The Government Department, whose prominent professors include Stephen Brooks, Richard Ned Lebow, and William Wohlforth, was ranked the top solely undergraduate political science program in the world by researchers at the London School of Economics in 2003.

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 '.

Others, such as Polly Schoyer Brooks ( the author of a non-academic biography of Eleanor ), suggest that the court did exist, but that it was not taken very seriously and that the acts of Courtly Love were just a “ parlor game ” made up by Eleanor and Marie in order to place some order over the young courtiers living there.

( One of her co-stars in that film was husband Brooks West.

Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Desi Arnaz and Ball during their marriage, was the production company for the Our Miss Brooks television show, which filmed during the same years as I Love Lucy.

On 15 May 2012, Brooks was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

On 24 July 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that Brooks would be charged, along with six other former members of the staff of the News of the World, with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority, from 3 October 2000 to 9 August 2006.

In addition to this " generic " charge, Brooks would be charged with four specific counts of conspiracy to intercept communications without lawful authority.

On 15 May 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service ( CPS ) charged Brooks and five others with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Studebaker Wagonaire's roof design was the invention of industrial designer Brooks Stevens, who was charged by the automaker's president, Sherwood Egbert, to expand the company's limited model range without spending vast amounts of capital on retooling.

It was charged that Brooks had apparently attempted to weaken the rival company and win back the mail contract for the Southwestern Stage Company.

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.

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.

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.