Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long the world's highest-paid violinist,* Kreisler was famed for both his astonishing musical memory and his aversion to practice: sometimes he would go a whole summer without touching the violin on the theory that "if I played too frequently, I should rub the bloom off the musical imagination." In the mid-1930s, Kreisler astonished the musical world-and embarrassed critics-by confessing that for years he had been palming off a whole series of his own compositions as the works of such classical composers as Vivaldi, Martini, Couperin, Dittersdorf, Pugnani. Explained Kreisler: "I found it inexpedient...
...Even so, the experts are choosing their stocks with considerable care. In recent months, they have favored "defensive" issues that tend to advance in tandem with the population growth and the rising standard of living, e.g., food, cosmetics, tobacco, publishing, insurance, utilities and banks. As of last week, the bloom was off most of these rosy issues because prices have skipped far ahead of earnings forecasts. Now the experts are eying the industries that tend to curve along with the business cycle-oils, industrial machinery, rails, chemicals, paper-and which stand to profit if general business activity picks...
...SALLIE BLOOM Arusha, Tanganyika...
...rebellious Sarah Miles, now 18, had landed one of the most enviable roles any girl could ever want. She had been picked as Sir Laurence Olivier's leading lady for his new film. Term of Trial, joining a list that includes such distinguished predecessors as Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, Marilyn Monroe and Joan Plowright. Appropriately enough, she will play the role of a precocious schoolgirl. In the film, she tries to seduce her schoolmaster (Olivier), is spurned, and retaliates by charging him with assault...
Realistically, Bloom concedes that he has already cornered about as much of the British washer market as he is apt to get. ("The two leaders-British Hoover and Hotpoint-have so much capital behind them that we couldn't move much farther.") In his new heater specialty, however, he faces virtually no effective competition. And some time in the future he plans to bring out a $118 dishwasher. "But the British aren't ready for this yet," he cautions. "It's too modern...