Word: bloomed
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...first reading of Ulysses can thus be a baffling experience, although no book more generously rewards patience and fortitude. Stephen Dedalus reappears, still stuck in Dublin, dreaming of escape. Then we meet Leopold Bloom, or rather we meet his thoughts as he prepares breakfast for his wife Molly. (We experience her thoughts as she drifts off to sleep at the end of the book...
Ulysses is the account of one day in Dublin--June 16, 1904, Joyce's private tribute to Nora, since that was the date on which they first went out together. The book follows the movements of not only Stephen and Bloom but also hundreds of other Dubliners as they walk the streets, meet and talk, then talk some more in restaurants and pubs. All this activity seems random, a record of urban happenstance...
Students involved in the Women's Leadership Project (WLP) also prompted the College to award its first ever Women's Leadership prize for undergraduates and the Women's Professional Achievement Award. Both honors were funded by the Terrie Fried Bloom '75 endowment, a gift of about $50,000 made at the beginning of the last academic year...
...addition to the Houghton and the TerrieFried Bloom endowments, Amy Smith Berylson '75endowed a fund in her name during the last term.While Berylson declined to comment on the size ofthe endowment, Avery says the gift will fund anannual lecture featuring women professionals in avariety of fields...
...thinking about all this as I walked through the Yard after my last exam. The sun shone brightly on the trees and the carefully planted flowers were in full bloom. Students were throwing frisbees, and a tour group was staring attentively at the Crimson Key guide as he stood on the steps of Widener explaining its history. On such days, Harvard seems to me to be one of the most beautiful places in the world--an idyllic institution serving some of the finest minds in the country...