Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boone, N.C., is WHERE THE LILIES BLOOM, and where the Luther family, under the reluctant direction of 14-year-old Mary Call, is struggling to make do. Father, widowed years ago, has died. On his deathbed he placed Mary Call (more responsible than her dreamy older sister Devola) in charge of all Luther business, including the matter of keeping Kiser Pease, the acquisitive neighbor down the road, a good country mile away from Devola, Most of the movie is taken up with Mary Call's straining to live up to her responsibility, to fulfill a promise made mistakenly...
Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins of the University of Edinburgh is trying to make computer models of the way people produce sentences and understand language. Floyd Bloom, 37, chief of the laboratory of neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., and Walle Nauta, 57, of M.I.T., are using special staining techniques to trace the brain's neuronal pathways. "We have a long way to go," says Bloom, "but every little piece of information we gather leads us toward a better understanding of the way that the brain reacts to the outside world...
...organ is lit up like the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Overblown poppies bloom in Oriental splendor in the organist's iridescent paisley jacket. At the keyboard, he rocks vigorously in gigue time, his rhinestone-decorated black suede shoes dancing over the pedals. Cascading waves of sound shake Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Then, with a puff of smoke, the organist disappears. Overhead, a glowing portrait of a rotund face with crimped curls and dimpled chin flashes on a screen. The overflow audience explodes in cheers for Virgil Fox and Johann Sebastian Bach...
...From the earliest years of his Zionist agitation Ben-Gurion pleaded for agreement between Jews and Arabs, provoking right-wing attacks that called him a doctrinaire socialist and deracinated cosmopolitan. In the last years of his retirement in Sde Boker, a kibbutz collectively engaged in making the Israeli desert bloom, Ben-Gurion still tried to see both sides of every question. If he'd been a young Arab, he remarked privately, he might have joined the fedayeen...
...flower can remain in full bloom for more than ten days. No man alive can last longer than ten years in power. -Korean proverb...