Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottom fell out of the Harvard literature departments in the Seventies. They had failed to find new blood to continue Harvard's reputation into the next generation, while Yale, after a bitter battle with undertones of anti-Semitism, secured Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman, followed by several figures from Johns Hopkins...
...Claire Bloom, a grand dame of theatre and the newest member of the A.R.T. company, fills the role of landowner Madame Ranevskaya ably, but is too restrained to convey the character's significance. Her Ranevskaya is flighty and foolish, and her translucent presence little justifies the excitement surrounding her return...
...college faced a crisis. Clinansmith says Yearwood began to stalk her, to lurk outside her dorm and send lewd and threatening messages. Yearwood admits to some aggressive flirting -- at one point, he reached out and caressed her cheek -- but denies doing anything wrong. In the end, Swarthmore president Bloom made a decision that some might call Solomonic and others a - novel attempt to pass the buck. Bloom found Yearwood guilty of intimidation (but not sexual harassment) and offered him a deal. If the young man would enter behavioral counseling and take a semester's voluntary leave of absence, Swarthmore would...
...punishments go, it was an extraordinary proposal: the notion of one elite college paying another to take a troublesome student off its hands. The deal's emphasis, says Bloom, is on counseling. Yearwood, he observes, still does not think the problem is that he is intimidating but feels instead that "other people don't stand up to his intimidation." Without the leverage of a promised semester elsewhere, the student would be unlikely to seek help. "If we'd just suspended him," argues Bloom, "he'd become even more hostile...
...some Swarthmore students believe that Bloom in his creative sentencing was succumbing to intimidation rather than battling it. "If I had my way, we'd tar and feather and toast him," says sophomore Laura Starita of Yearwood. "When you have someone like that, he's a danger to everyone on campus, especially women...