Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bradley Bloom '75 was at Yom Kippur services in his hometown, Swampscott, when he first heard that a new war had broken out in the Mideast. He remembers being surprised that the Arab nations had chosen that particular time to attack Israeli-held territories, and thought that Israel would win the war very quickly...
...days later, it was obvious that Israel was not doing as well as Bloom had expected, and he started thinking about what he could do to help in what appeared to be the start of a protracted Israeli war effort. He went to a rally in Brookline where the speakers called for American volunteers to go to Israel and work in the kibbutzim...
...next day Bloom became the first person in the Boston area to commit himself to a six-month stay in Israel. He has arranged to take off the 1973-74 academic year, and expects to leave within a week. He is the only Harvard student so far who has answered the Israeli call for American volunteers...
...Mark Kelman's first novel is a thoroughly disgusting person, a haughty 21-year-old woman who serenly ignores the consequences of any of her actions. She is locked in a test of wills with her younger brother Nicky, whose suspicions that she has committed a murder gradually bloom into certainty. The book, on the surface a mystery played out at a Long Island estate, is actually a penetrating examination of engagement, of the need for people to surrender partially to the world in order to live...
...DOLL'S HOUSE, by Henrik Ibsen. This is a play of which I have only seen the Claire Bloom movie, which I liked, though The Crimson's reviewer did not. There is now a Jane Fonda movie as well. A great play. MIT Community Players. Opens tonight at 8 at the Kresge Little Theater...