Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS year's celebrity-in-tweed has emerged in the unlikely shape of Paul Kennedy, a Yale history professor, who is likely to supplant Alan Bloom as superstar critic-at-large...
Ceglarski has a young team, a team that has lost more than it has won, a team that needed something to put the bloom back in its cheeks. B.C.'s 4-2 win over Harvard--nationally-ranked Harvard--gave the Eagles a shade, if only a pale shade, of momentum going into the fight for the last playoff spot...
...teasing out its apex, until, as if the flame has magical properties, a small, delicately structured leaf emerges. More colored glass is added to the gas jet, layer upon layer of opaque, translucent and transparent browns, yellows, oranges and reds, and one by one petals, stamens and stems bloom into being. Paul Stankard leans back from the workbench at his home in Mantua, N.J., and his broad, open face creases into a smile. "You know what I do for a living?" he asks. "I take $25 worth of material, make love to it for a few hours and then sell...
...outspoken opponent of apartheid, Anthony Bloom, chief executive of the Premier Group, a giant milling concern that had sales last year of $3.1 billion, has long been one of South Africa's foremost liberal businessmen. His company was among the earliest to recognize the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising as a workers' holiday...
...dismay of South Africa's liberal establishment, Bloom, 48, announced last week that he was leaving the country to settle in Britain. Bloom cited "serious personal and family reasons" for the move. His stepdaughter is receiving medical treatment in Britain. But he also said that South Africa's state of emergency was "frightening away liberals." Many of the country's leading citizens are choosing to live elsewhere. In the past five years, while only 52,000 whites have immigrated to South Africa, about 148,000 have left...