Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will. Riding high, he terrorized his rivals, shipping to prison or disgrace all Soviet biologists who defended the orthodox axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer of dogmas, since Nikita Khrushchev does not care much about that, but as a preacher of the kind of husbandry that Khrushchev hopes will whip up the country's badly lagging farm output...
...once before, given rise to the countermyth: the myth of the Jew as artist, as aesthete, as hypersensitive and anxious man; and in this mask he has engaged the attention of the great novelists of our century. For the creators of Swann (but also Bloch), of Leopold Bloom, Joseph K, as well as the recreator of the Biblical Joseph, the Jew has come to reflect increasingly the problems and pressures of Western man. If he is still (or more than ever) the Outsider, he knows that he has been cast in a role that symbolically identifies him with a world...
...Ambassador to Turkey, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, and consultant, since 1958, to the National Security Council. As boss of the sensitive policy planning board, it will be his job to keep Secretary Rusk up to date on ideas as they bloom in foreign affairs institutes around the country, and to help formulate long-range policy...
Morton Bloomfield, an authority on medieval literature, who was also recently appointed professor of English, will offer a course in the history of the English language, and an advanced course in Old English, designed primarily for concentrators in medieval literature. Bloom-field currently teaches at Ohio State University...
...description might come from any dust jacket, but Novelist Ashton-Warner's portrait is all but unique. Germaine de Beauvais. a young Parisian concert pianist who exiles herself to New Zealand after the death of her husband, is a woman as convincingly evoked as Emma Bovary or Molly Bloom. The narrative is a first-person reverie; a stream of consciousness, then a torrent, then a willful, feminine shutting down of thought. Germaine is mirrored in the flow of words as well as in their content. Prose of a different texture would be necessary if she were older, or merely...