Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back on the Green Line, change at Park St., and take the Orange Line through Roxbury (look out the window) to Forest Hills. At the Arboretum the lilacs are in bloom and the crabapples and cherry trees are just finishing. The use of form and color should delight the eye of any aesthete. There is a display about the history, uses and so forth of the collection if you insist on an indoors definition of art. But the best exhibit is outside...
...romance between China and Egypt came into full bloom last week. The two countries signed a pact under which Peking, in addition to supplying an undisclosed amount of military hardware to Cairo, will provide $50 million worth of strategic raw materials for Egyptian industry and boost Sino-Egyptian trade from $450 million in 1975 to more than $600 million this year. The signing of the agreement capped a six-day visit to Peking by Egyptian Vice President Hosny Mubarak. Declared the Egyptian at his farewell banquet in Peking: "She [China] proves not only by words but also by deeds that...
Died. Rube Bloom, 73, self-taught jazz pianist and composer whose songs include Give Me the Simple Life, Truckin ' and Fools Rush In; in Manhattan. Bloom first stepped into the jazz spotlight in 1928, when he won a Victor Records contest with his hit Song of the Bayou, and stayed there for decades...
...bankruptcy of formalist criticism, the depth of its need for some reference to human values, is indicated by the eagerness with which the critical establishment has embraced the work of Harold Bloom. Bloom appears to inject some authentic excitement into criticism--his poets are animated by powerful emotions of anxiety, love and rebellion, but directed exclusively toward other poets. In this baroque system, the task of the critic is to celebrate the Oedipal process through which a poet matures by distorting and misreading his predecessors. The result is T.S. Eliot stood upside-down--instead of the artist's effacing...
Intimates who know him off-tube insist that Vidal's public image as a Cassandra in drag is a mask protecting a sensitive, even self-sacrificial ally. Actress Claire Bloom recalls the time last year when he interrupted the writing of 1876 to accompany her on a twelve-day trip to Greece. Depressed by a broken marriage and a role in a play that folded out of New York, she found Vidal a consoling companion, showing her local sights she had not seen before. Later, he dedicated 1876 to her. "I know he likes to give the impression that...