Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hyman Bloom is as poetic as Koerner is deliberately prosaic; he seems to echo the horror-logged, death-haunted work of Edgar Allan Poe. Bloom's Slaughtered Animal (overleaf), part of a retrospective exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, led one dowager to complain that "When I want raw meat, I'll send my chauffeur to the butcher...
Poet Grudin's aim is simply to do the same job all over again in a Times Square accent. His hero is "Louie Bloom Jerce, the inky darkling," i.e., a Joycean "jerk" whose attachment to writing has made him black as ink and a bit of an Irish "darlin"' into the bargain. This opus is Inky's "histree" - which means, of course, both "his tree" and personal "history." Inky admits that, unlike Jerce, he is not much of a scholar - "the penalty for not sticking to my last from the first." He advises people...
...first buds of spring were all ready to burst into bloom last week in London's ballrooms, nightclubs and charity bazaars. In the fashionable Berkeley Hotel, the horticulturists who had nursed them to maturity were gathered in solemn session. The mothers of this year's crop of debutantes were ostensibly meeting to make arrangements for a forthcoming fashion show, but their deeper purpose was to prepare a new spring catalogue of this season's night-blooming annuals...
...Dietrich said yesterday that the "energy and hard work" of all concerned with the drive had produced better than average results. Bloom-attributed the lack of interest in this year's blood drive campaign, compared to that of previous drives, to the Korean armistice...
About 67 percent of those who had signed up to give blood actually donated yesterday at Memorial Hall. Bloom called this figure higher than average. A total of 450, had singed to give yesterday...