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Brookes, William Penny (British physician)
...improvement, workers universities, and the popular study of world political history. These efforts attained little success and are largely forgotten today. In 1890 Coubertin met English educator William Penny Brookes, who had organized British Olympic Games as early as 1866. Brookes introduced Coubertin to the efforts that he and others had made to resurrect the Olympic Games. Brookes’s....
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Brookfield (Illinois, United States)
village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Located on Salt Creek, it is a residential suburb of Chicago, located about 12 miles (20 km) west of downtown. Settlement of the area began in 1888–89, when Samuel Eberly Gross, a land promoter originally from Pennsylvania, began offering lots for sale. Initially called Grossdale, the village was renamed...
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Brookfield Zoo (zoo, Brookfield, Illinois, United States)
zoo located in Brookfield, Illinois, U.S., a western suburb of Chicago. Brookfield Zoo, opened in 1934, is known for its extensive use of open-air, unbarred enclosures. It is owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County and is operated by the Chicago Zoological Society. Brookfield Zoo receives some 2 million visitors annually....
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Brookhaven National Laboratory (research centre, Upton, New York, United States)
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Rochester, and Yale. AUI was incorporated in 1946 to manage the then new Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, Long Island, N.Y., for the Atomic Energy Commission. Brookhaven, now funded by the U.S. Department of......
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Brookings (Oregon, United States)
city, Curry county, Oregon, U.S., on the Pacific coast at the mouth of the Chetco River, 6 miles (10 km) north of the California state line. Across the river to the south lies the city of Harbor. The region’s earliest known inhabitants were Athabascan-speaking Chetco (Cheti) Indians, the most numerous of some 12 West Coast bands. When the Chetco River valley was settled b...
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Brookings (South Dakota, United States)
city, seat of Brookings county, eastern South Dakota, U.S. It lies in the Big Sioux River valley, about 55 miles (90 km) north of Sioux Falls and 15 miles (25 km) west of the Minnesota border. Sioux Indians were living in the area when fur traders ar...
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Brookings Institution (American research institution)
research institute, not for profit, founded in Washington, D.C., in 1927 by the merchant, manufacturer, and philanthropist Robert S. Brookings and devoted to public service through research and education in the social sciences, particularly in economic...
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Brookings, Robert S. (American philanthropist)
U.S. businessman and philanthropist who helped establish the Brookings Institution at Washington, D.C....
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Brookings, Robert Somers (American philanthropist)
U.S. businessman and philanthropist who helped establish the Brookings Institution at Washington, D.C....
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Brookins, Walter (American aviator)
...United States the Wrights trained an exhibition team—the Wright Flyers—whose first outing was in June 1910, the stars of the team being Walter Brookins, Arch Hoxsey (d. 1910), and Ralph Johnstone (d. 1910). Brookins was famous for his spiral dives and steep turns employing 90 degrees of bank (i.e., with wings perpendicular to the......
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brookite (mineral)
one of three minerals composed of titanium dioxide (TiO2) (see also rutile; anatase). It typically occurs as brown, metallic crystals in veins in gneiss and schist; it is also found in placer deposits and, less com...
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Brookland (borough, New York City, New York, United States)
one of the five boroughs of New York City, southwestern Long Island, southeastern New York, U.S., coextensive with Kings county. It is separated from Manhattan by the East River and is bordered by the Upper and Lower New York bays (west), the Atlantic Ocean (south), and the borough of Queens (north and eas...
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Brooklands (British racetrack)
The first speedway was built in 1906 at Brooklands, near Weybridge, Surrey, Eng. The track was a 4.45 km circuit, 30 m (100 ft) wide, with two curves banked to a height of 8.5 m. Sprint, relay, endurance, and handicap races were run at Brooklands, as well as long-distance runs (1,600 km) in 1932. Twenty-four hour races were held in 1929–31. Brooklands closed in 1939. The first road racing.....
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Brookline (Massachusetts, United States)
town (township), an exclave of Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies between Suffolk and Middlesex counties and is almost surrounded by Boston. Settled in 1638 as part of Boston, it was called Muddy River until incorporated as a town of ...
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Brookline (borough, New York City, New York, United States)
one of the five boroughs of New York City, southwestern Long Island, southeastern New York, U.S., coextensive with Kings county. It is separated from Manhattan by the East River and is bordered by the Upper and Lower New York bays (west), the Atlantic Ocean (south), and the borough of Queens (north and eas...
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Brooklyn (California, United States)
...it became a transit centre for goods and people. In 1849–50 Moses Chase, a squatter, and some associates leased and then purchased farmland and laid out the town of Clinton (later named Brooklyn). In 1851 Horace W. Carpentier started a trans-bay ferry service to San Francisco and acquired a town site (1852) to the west of Brooklyn, naming it Oakland for the oak trees on the grassy......
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Brooklyn (borough, New York City, New York, United States)
one of the five boroughs of New York City, southwestern Long Island, southeastern New York, U.S., coextensive with Kings county. It is separated from Manhattan by the East River and is bordered by the Upper and Lower New York bays (west), the Atlantic Ocean (south), and the borough of Queens (north and eas...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Arboretum (garden, New York City, New York, United States)
botanical garden founded in 1911 in Brooklyn, N.Y., municipally owned and privately operated (by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences). It maintains an extensive and widely emulated program of public education. The 50-acre (20-hectare) area in Brooklyn is augmente...
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Brooklyn Bridegrooms (American baseball team)
American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles that plays in the National League (NL). The team won six World Series titles and 21 NL pennants....
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Brooklyn Bridge (bridge, New York City, New York, United States)
suspension bridge spanning the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan Island, New York City. A brilliant feat of 19th-century engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first bridge to use steel for cable wire, and during its construction explosives were used inside a ...
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Brooklyn Children’s Museum (museum, New York City, New York, United States)
educational institution in Brooklyn, N.Y., established in 1899 as the world’s first children’s museum. The museum was originally a part of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1823. In 1977 the Children’s Museum opened in a building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, after nearly seven decades of operation in two Victorian mans...
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Brooklyn Dodgers (American baseball team)
American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles that plays in the National League (NL). The team won six World Series titles and 21 NL pennants....
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Brooklyn Heights (district, New York City, New York, United States)
...prison ships were anchored in Wallabout Bay; a memorial to the thousands who died stands in Fort Greene Park. Early in the 19th century, Brooklyn became the world’s first modern commuter suburb, and Brooklyn Heights was transformed into a wealthy residential community. Modern-day entrepreneurs have restored ferry service across the East River, and the esplanade along the heights rewards ...
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Brooklyn Law School (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
...prison ships were anchored in Wallabout Bay; a memorial to the thousands who died stands in Fort Greene Park. Early in the 19th century, Brooklyn became the world’s first modern commuter suburb, and Brooklyn Heights was transformed into a wealthy residential community. Modern-day entrepreneurs have restored ferry service across the East River, and the esplanade along the heights rewards ...
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Brooklyn Museum of Art (museum, New York City, New York, United States)
art institution in Brooklyn, New York, that pioneered in public education in art and community participation and service. The first section of the museum was opened in 1897. It added wings and special facilities over the years, and in 1923 it became the first museum in the United States...
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Brooklyn Superbas (American baseball team)
American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles that plays in the National League (NL). The team won six World Series titles and 21 NL pennants....
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Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (American baseball team)
American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles that plays in the National League (NL). The team won six World Series titles and 21 NL pennants....
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Brookner, Anita (British author)
English art historian and author known for her novels of lonely people, especially middle-aged women who feel they have been betrayed by literature into expecting more from life than they are able to achieve. She is a master of character and of the telling of detail....
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Brooks (United States territory, Pacific Ocean)
unincorporated territory of the United States in the central Pacific Ocean, 1,300 miles (2,100 km) northwest of Honolulu. The islands, near the western end of the Hawaiian archipelago, comprise a cora...
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Brooks (town, Alberta, Canada)
town, southern Alberta, Canada, on the Trans-Canada Highway, 116 miles (187 km) southeast of Calgary. It originated in the late 19th century as a Canadian Pacific Railway flag stop for cattle shipping and was named for N.E. Brooks, a division railroad engineer. The town was incorporated by 1910. In the surrounding area, ranching and the production of ...
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Brooks & Dunn (American music duo)
popular American country music duo that became a fixture on the music sales charts beginning in the early 1990s. The band comprised Leon Eric (“Kix”) Brooks (b. May 12, 1955Shreveport, La., U.S.) and Ronnie Gene Dunn ...
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Brooks, Cleanth (American critic and educator)
American teacher and critic whose work was important in establishing the New Criticism, which stressed close reading and structural analysis of literature....
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Brooks, Elmore (American musician)
American blues singer-guitarist noted for the urgent intensity of his singing and guitar playing. He was a significant influence on the development of rock music....
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Brooks, Frederick Phillips, Jr. (American computer scientist)
American computer scientist and winner of the 1999 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “landmark contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.”...
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Brooks, Garth (American singer-songwriter)
American country music singer-songwriter whose crossover appeal to the pop market made him the top-selling solo artist of all time....
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Brooks, Gwendolyn (American poet and educator)
American poet whose works deal with the everyday life of urban blacks. She was the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1949), and in 1968 she was named the poet laureate of Illinois....
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Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth (American poet and educator)
American poet whose works deal with the everyday life of urban blacks. She was the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1949), and in 1968 she was named the poet laureate of Illinois....
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Brooks, Herb (American athlete)
American ice hockey player and coach (b. Aug. 5, 1937, St. Paul, Minn.—d. Aug. 11, 2003, near Forest Lake, Minn.), guided the U.S. men’s ice hockey team to one of the greatest upsets in sports as it defeated the U.S.S.R. en route to capturing the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y.; the dramatic win became known as the “Miracle on Ice.” Brooks later...
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Brooks, Herbert Paul (American athlete)
American ice hockey player and coach (b. Aug. 5, 1937, St. Paul, Minn.—d. Aug. 11, 2003, near Forest Lake, Minn.), guided the U.S. men’s ice hockey team to one of the greatest upsets in sports as it defeated the U.S.S.R. en route to capturing the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y.; the dramatic win became known as the “Miracle on Ice.” Brooks later...
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Brooks, James L. (American screenwriter, director, and producer)
U.S. screenwriter, director, and producer. He worked in television from 1964. He cocreated and produced the hit Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77) and several other TV programs and series, including The Tracey Ullman Show (1986–90) and The Simpsons (from 1989). As wr...
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Brooks, Joseph (American composer, director, and producer)
...Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score: Jonathon Tunick for A Little Night MusicOriginal Song: “You Light Up My Life” from You Light Up My Life; music and lyrics by Joseph BrooksHonorary Award: Margaret Booth, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sidney P. Solow...
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Brooks, Leon Eric “Kix” (American musician)
popular American country music duo that became a fixture on the music sales charts beginning in the early 1990s. The band comprised Leon Eric (“Kix”) Brooks (b. May 12, 1955Shreveport, La., U.S.) and Ronnie Gene Dunn......
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Brooks, Louise (American actress)
American motion-picture actress who was noted for her seemingly effortless incarnation of corrupt sensuality in silent-picture roles during the 1920s....
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Brooks, Maria Gowen (American poet)
American poet whose work, though admired for a time, represented a florid and grandiose style not greatly appreciated since....
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Brooks, Mary Abigail Gowen (American poet)
American poet whose work, though admired for a time, represented a florid and grandiose style not greatly appreciated since....
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Brooks, Mel (American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor)
American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor whose motion pictures elevated outrageousness and vulgarity to high comic art....
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Brooks, Phillips (American clergyman)
American Episcopal clergyman renowned as a preacher....
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Brooks Range (mountains, Alaska, United States)
northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in northern Alaska, U.S. Named for the geologist Alfred H. Brooks, the entire range is within the Arctic Circle. It is separated from the Alaska Range (south) by the plains and tablelands of the Yukon and Porcupine river systems. Brooks Ran...
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Brooks, Richard (American writer and director)
American screenwriter and motion-picture director and producer who created films that were characterized by social realism, especially movie adaptations of novels, such as Elmer Gantry (1960), for which he won an Academy Award for best screenplay....
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Brooks, Rodney Allen (Australian-American scientist)
computer scientist, artificial intelligence scientist, and designer of mobile autonomous robots....
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Brooks, Romaine Goddard (American painter)
American painter who, in her gray-shaded portraits, penetrated and distilled her subjects’ personalities to an often disturbing degree....
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Brooks, Van Wyck (American critic)
American critic, biographer, and literary historian, whose “Finders and Makers” series traces American literary history in rich biographical detail from 1800 to 1915....
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Brooks, William Keith (American zoologist)
American zoologist known for his research on the anatomy and embryology of marine animals, especially the tunicates, crustaceans (e.g., crayfish), and mollusks (notably the oyster). In his acceptance of evolution, he remained in the tradition of 19th-century descriptive morphology; but, through his more able students, he influenced the ...
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Brooks-Randolph, Angie Elisabeth (Liberian jurist and diplomat)
Liberian jurist and diplomat who became (1969) the second woman president of the UN General Assembly. After receiving a bachelor’s degree (1949) from Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., she pursued law studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. (She later earned doctorates of law from Shaw University and Howard University in Washington, D.C.). She returned to Liberia in 1953 and was...
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Brookwood (cemetery, Woking, England, United Kingdom)
...graveyards, to cemeteries and now to memorial parks where the graves are marked with flat metal markers instead of the customary gravestones. One of the largest 19th-century projects was England’s Brookwood, organized by the London Necropolis Company. It had a private railway station in London and two in the cemetery, its own telegraphic address, and special areas for different religions...
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broom (plant)
any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Cytisus, of the pea family (Fabaceae), native to temperate regions of Europe and western Asia. They are also cultivated in other regions, chiefly for their attractive flowers. The compound leaves have three leaflets. The yellow, purple, or white flowers are solitary or...
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broom (utensil)
A distinctive part of the game is the use of a brush, or broom, to sweep the ice in front of the sliding stone. This is a tradition carried over from the days when curling was played outdoors on frozen lakes; it was necessary to clear the snow to provide a path for the oncoming rock. Sweeping is still used today on indoor rinks because it both removes stray ice particles and smoothes the......
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broom moss (plant)
the most common species of the wind-blown moss genus Dicranum. This species occurs from Alaska to California and also in the southeastern United States, as well as in Mexico, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Dicranum i...
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Broom of the System, The (novel by Wallace)
...creative writing at the University of Arizona when his highly regarded debut novel, The Broom of the System (1987), was published. He later taught creative writing at Illinois State University and at Pomona College. He.....
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Broom, Robert (South African paleontologist)
...“southern ape of Africa.” From then until 1960 almost all that was known about australopiths came from limestone caves in South Africa. The richest source is at Sterkfontein, where Robert Broom and his team collected hundreds of specimens beginning in 1936. At first Broom simply bought fossils, but in 1946 he began excavating, aided by a crew of skillful workers. Excavation......
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broom sedge (plant)
...and pasture plants. Sand bluestem (A. hallii), with yellowish spikelets, grows on sand hills in the central and western United States. Broom sedge (A. virginicus) and bushy beard grass (A. glomeratus) are coarse grasses, unsuitable for forage, that grow in poor soils in eastern and southern ......
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broomcorn (plant)
a variety of upright grass of the species Sorghum vulgare, or S. bicolor variety technicum, belonging to the family Gramineae (sometimes Poaceae) and cultivated for their stiff stems. The seeds of broomcorn are borne on the ends of long straight branches. When harvested and dried, these stiff bristles are processed and bound to form broom heads and brushes. S. vulgare ...
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broomcorn millet (plant)
...seasons. The ancestor of foxtail millet is green foxtail grass (Seteria italica viridis), while the ancestor of broomcorn millet has yet to be identified. Domesticated millet grains are distinguished from wild grains by changes in their proportions and size. Both foxtail and broomcorn millet seeds are so...
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Broome (county, New York, United States)
county, south-central New York state, U.S., comprising a hilly upland region bordered by Pennsylvania to the south. It is drained principally by the Susquehanna River (which crosses the southern part of the county twice) and by the Tioughnioga, Otselic, and Chenango rivers. Parklands are located at Chenango Lake, Oquaga Creek, and Whitney Point Reservoir. Coun...
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Broome (Western Australia, Australia)
town and port, northern Western Australia, on the north shore of Roebuck Bay (an inlet of the Indian Ocean). This part of the coast was explored in 1688 and 1699 by the English adventurer and buccaneer William Dampier, whose report o...
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Broome, Lady (British author)
writer best known for her book Station Life in New Zealand (1870), a lively account of life in colonial New Zealand....
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Broome of Broome, Baron Denton of Denton, Viscount (British field marshal)
British field marshal, imperial administrator, conqueror of The Sudan, commander in chief during the South African War, and (perhaps his most important role) secretary of state for war at the beginning of World War I...
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Broome, William (British scholar and poet)
British scholar and poet, best known as a collaborator with Alexander Pope and Elijah Fenton in a project to translate Homer’s Odyssey, of which Broome translated books 2, 6, 8, 11, 12, 16, 18, and 23. He seems to have undertaken the work mainly to add lustre to his reputat...
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broomrape (plant)
any member of about 150 species of the genus Orobanche and its family (Orobanchaceae, order Lamiales), which contains 99 genera (including Boschniakia) and about 2,000 species in all. All are parasitic herbs, with little green tissue (i.e., they have little chlorophyll and do not produce their food photosynthetically to any great extent); instead, they draw nourishment from the roots...
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broomrape family (plant)
Orobanchaceae, or the broomrape family, was also considerably expanded under APG II from its former delimitation. Instead of about 15 genera and 210 species of entirely parasitic plants (holoparasites, with no chlorophyll), the family now includes 99 genera and some 2,000 species. These additional groups are all hemiparastic plants; that is, they have green foliage and are photosynthetic, but......
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Broonzy, Big Bill (American musician)
American blues singer and guitarist who represented a tradition of itinerant folk blues....
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Broonzy, William Lee Conley (American musician)
American blues singer and guitarist who represented a tradition of itinerant folk blues....
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Brophy, Brigid (British writer)
English writer whose satiric, witty novels explore the psychology of sex. She also wrote plays and nonfiction that reflect her interests in psychoanalysis, art, opera, and sexual liberation....
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Brophy, Brigid Antonia (British writer)
English writer whose satiric, witty novels explore the psychology of sex. She also wrote plays and nonfiction that reflect her interests in psychoanalysis, art, opera, and sexual liberation....
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Brorson, Hans Adolf (Danish clergyman and author)
Danish Pietist clergyman, the outstanding writer of hymns of his day, and translator of German Pietist hymns into Danish....
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Broschi, Carlo (Italian singer)
celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera. He adopted the surname of his benefactors, the brothers Farina....
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Broseley Blue Dragon pattern (ornamental motif)
The firm of Minton’s was founded at Stoke-upon-Trent in 1793 by Thomas Minton, a Caughley engraver said to have devised for Spode the Broseley Blue Dragon and Willow patterns that are still in use. Like Coalport, the factory was much occupied in copying the work of Sèvres. From 1848 to 1895 they employed a Frenchman, Joseph-François-Léon Arnoux, as art director, and und...
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Brosimum (tree genus)
prolific trees closely related to the breadfruit and found widely in second-growth Central American tropical rainforests, where its presence in deep forest is considered evidence of pre-Colombian Mayan silviculture. The tree has since been cultivated in many tropical countries....
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Brosme brosme (fish)
long-bodied food fish of the cod family, Gadidae, found along the bottom in deep, offshore waters on either side of the North Atlantic. The cusk is a small-scaled fish with a large mouth and a barbel on its chin. It has one dorsal and one anal fin, both long and both connected, though only at the base, to the rounded tail. The cusk may grow ab...
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Brosnan, Pierce (Irish American actor)
Irish American actor who was perhaps best known for playing James Bond in a series of films....
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Brosnan, Pierce Brendan (Irish American actor)
Irish American actor who was perhaps best known for playing James Bond in a series of films....
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Brossa, Joan (Spanish poet)
...“Desk with Straw,” in which an actual desk serves as the “canvas.” His works of lithography were noted for their cryptic, spontaneous effects. He also collaborated with poet Joan Brossa on a number of illustrated books....
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Brossard, Nicole (Canadian author)
...criticism of American feminists, Francophone feminists primarily turned to the literary theory of French critics. Important in the realm of theoretical explorations was the work of Nicole Brossard (L’Amer; ou, le chapitre effrité [1977; These Our Mothers; or, The Disintegrating Chapter] and Picture Theory [1982; Eng. tran...
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Brosse, Salomon de (French architect)
most influential French architect of the early 17th century, whose works facilitated the development of the classical châteaus designed by the generation that followed him....
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Brosses, Charles de (French scholar)
...concern for the problems of religions other than those of the Judeo-Christian tradition largely in terms of the paganism of the ancient world. In this connection, the French scholar and politician Charles de Brosses (1709–77) attempted to explain Greek polytheism partly through the fetishism (belief in the magical powers of certain objects) found in ......
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Brossolette, Pierre (French journalist)
a leading member of the French Resistance during the German occupation in World War II....
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Brostrom, Axel Ludvig (Swedish ship owner)
founder of what was, in its time, the largest shipping group in Sweden. Brostrom is regarded as the father of the modern Swedish mercantile marine....
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“Brot der frühen Jahre, Das” (work by Böll)
...Where Art Thou?), he describes the grimness and despair of soldiers’ lives. The uneasiness of reality is explored in the life of a mechanic in Das Brot der frühen Jahre (1955; The Bread of Our Early Years) and in a family of architects in Billard um halb zehn (1959; Billiards at Half-Past Nine), which, with its interior monologues and flashbacks,...
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broth (baking)
...pan. The initial fermentation process is still essentially a batch procedure, but in the continuous bread-making line the traditional sponge is replaced by a liquid pre-ferment, called the broth or brew. The brew consists of a mixture of water, yeast, sugar, and portions of the flour and other ingredients, fermented for a few hours before being mixed into the dough....
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broth (cookery)
Cream-based sauces begin with stock solutions, which are prepared by boiling raw stock material such as beef, fish, or poultry in water. Boiling is conducted in large kettles that may be operated either open to the atmosphere or under vacuum. Boiling under vacuum, accomplished at temperatures lower than 100° C (212° F), helps to retain more flavour compounds in the stock. Salt, spice...
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brothel (building)
...dowries. Nevertheless, prostitution flourished: it was not merely tolerated but also protected, licensed, and regulated by law, and it constituted a considerable source of public revenue. Public brothels were established in large cities throughout Europe. At Toulouse, in France, the profits were shared between the city and the university; in England, bordellos were originally licensed by the......
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brother (Christian ministry)
...and durable consecration than simple vows. Men who make religious profession but who do not receive the sacrament of holy orders are “brothers.”...
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Brother Adam (British apiarist)
(KARL KEHRLE), German-born Benedictine monk and bee breeder (b. Aug. 3, 1898, Mittlebiberach, Ger.--d. Sept. 1, 1996, Buckfast, South Devon, Eng.), was regarded as an authority on bees for his revolutionary work, most notably the development of the Buckfast bee, a breed that was considered one of the hardiest and most prolific producers of honey ever bred. At the age of 11 he was sent from his hom...
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Brother Antoninus (American poet)
American Roman Catholic poet whose works record a personal search for religious vision in a violent, corrupt world....
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Brother Asno (work by Barrios)
...one of his mother’s friends; Un perdido (1918; “A Down-and-Outer”), the story of a young boy with a deep inferiority complex; and El hermano asno (1922; Brother Asno, 1969), an unusual episode in the life of a mentally disturbed monk who attacks a girl in order to be despised by those who consider him a living saint. Barrios’s m...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (song by Gorney and Harburg)
...his friend Ira Gershwin. When his electrical-appliance business went bankrupt in 1929, he devoted himself to songwriting for Broadway, composing songs such as the Depression anthem Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (with Jay Gorney). From 1935 Harburg and Harold Arlen wrote songs for many films, notably The Wizard of Oz (1939). Blacklisted from......
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Brother Devil (work by Auber)
...well suited to French taste. One of the most successful and still familiar works in this popular, romantic vein is Fra Diavolo (1830; Brother Devil)....
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Brother, I’m Dying (work by Danticat)
...(2004), a series of interconnected stories about a Haitian immigrant who had tortured and murdered dissidents during the repressive rule of Franƈois Duvalier. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying (2007), won the National Book Critics Circle Award....
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Brother to Dragons (poem by Warren)
...Enough and Time (1950), which centres on a controversial murder trial in Kentucky in the 19th century; Band of Angels (1956); and The Cave (1959). His long narrative poem, Brother to Dragons (1953), dealing with the brutal murder of a slave by two nephews of Thomas Jefferson, is essentially a versified novel,......
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Brotherhood of Saint Luke (German art society)
one of an association formed by a number of young German painters in 1809 to return to the medieval spirit in art. Reacting particularly against 18th-century Neoclassicism, the brotherhood was the first effective antiacademic movement in European painting. The Nazarenes believed that all art should serve a moral or religious purpose; they admired painters of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissa...
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