Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trouble with Lawyers, Bloom 10. The Valachi Papers, Maas...
...point he pauses over a particular problem to ask, "now, why is that? is there an essay somewhere I can read on that? is it of import? or shall I go on?" Portnoy, with his daydreams and his failures, is actually much closer to that other Joycean hero, Leopold Bloom. The more Portnoy dredges up his past, the more it cripples him. He never achieves even Stephen's nominative freedom, for the mind is the one part of the man that can never expatriate...
...exhibition gallery is still higher, almost hidden. Two low-ceilinged spaces, lit even to the corners, surround the Boston Now exhibition by young Boston artists. Few of the thirty pieces of painting and sculpture are even three old. Hyman Bloom's mysterious, Dorerlike forest in Charcoal, done by the dean of Boston artists in 1963, is remote and antique...
Yellow Submarine combines every trick and treat of film animation with a dazzle of takeoffs on schools and styles of art. Picassoesque monsters compete with gentle grotesques from Dr. Seussland. Graham Sutherlandish plants burst in and out of bloom...
Disciplining the discussion, however, proved far more difficult than seating the host of participants. At the outset, Kaysen warned that he might have to limit speaking time to "let 80 flowers bloom." They bloomed in a vast tangle. On the first day of the discussion--which proved the most productive in many ways--the conversation bounced from the problems of blacks in America, to the problems of big bureaucracy and corporate capitalism. A Czech economist, Eugene Loebl, interjected the problems of youth as a sub-theme, but conversation turned away after an insistent Italian suggested that the American crisis could...