Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only six or eight girls and a few little dogs and stray children collected at the Radcliffe Field House behind Holmes Hall. There they heard Diane K. McGuire, landscape-architect for the entire project, speak of deep-planted daffodils, tulips with predictably Dutch names, and blue chinadoxes which bloom, T.S. Eliot notwithstanding, in earliest April. With spoons and spades they went off to scratch the ground...
Opera is enjoyable, she says, "but I could have sung six concerts in the time it took to rehearse Julius Caesar." In a recital, the rich tonalities of her deep velvet voice come to full bloom, lending breadth and a somber ecstasy to a Mahler song, a wry twist to a Hugo Wolf lied...
...Goldbergs; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Raised in the large, loving lap of an East Harlem Jewish family ("We didn't have Tennessee Williams problems," she once said. "It was more George Kaufman"), she had only to elaborate on her memories ("Yoohoo, Mrs. Bloom!") to sustain the 25-year run of her show, whose momentum carried her to Hollywood (Molly) and Broadway (A Majority of One) as leading popularizer of the formidable art of Jewish motherhood...
...intellectual who lives with his nice wife and their two nice children until-CHOONG! The Cuban missile crisis blows up his complacency and releases his alter ego: an unquiet Quixote who jumps on the nearest jet and goes whooshing across the U.S. in search of his true identity. Like Bloom in darkling Dublin, like Mitty in the mazes of Waterbury, Conn., he dissolves into fantasies elaborated to suggest simultaneously a madness in himself and in America. Headlines, brand names, movie stars, sports heroes, billboards, road signs, dirty jokes-they whirl in his head like garbage in a Disposall. And what...
University of Chicago Education Professor Benjamin S. Bloom, an N.E.A. consultant, contends that half of a 17-year-old's intelligence is developed by the time he is four, another 30% between four and eight. School at ages four and five, he feels, could help a child "develop his language ability and a longer attention span, give him skills in learning to learn and establish relationships with others...