Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle is not over with" said Dr. Mark V. Bloom, assistant director of the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The defense will continue to fight against the DNA fingerprinting, because it could be some of the most incriminating evidence brought against Simpson...
Surely no one opens The Interpretation of Dreams or Finnegans Wake in the hope of finding out exactly how Freud or Joyce dealt with that pesky, overbearing Shakespeare, particularly when Harold Bloom is ready with shorthand answers in The Western Canon. Why then, in this distraction-besotted time, read demanding, imaginative literature at all? On this topic, Bloom is uncharacteristically tentative. "Reading the very best writers -- let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy -- is not going to make us better citizens." And: "The study of literature, however it is conducted, will not save any individual, any more than it will...
Such guidance was once the province of religion, and it is ultimately the religious experience that Bloom seeks in secular writing: "Since I myself am partial to finding the voice of God in Shakespeare or Emerson or Freud, depending on my needs, I have no difficulty in finding Dante's Comedy to be divine." He amplifies this perception a bit later: "As a writer, Shakespeare was a sort of god." Bloom is entitled to his worship, since he has spent a lifetime of reading achieving it. But he is not, in The Western Canon, a very effective prophet...
...Harold Bloom defends his, though it's full of Dead White Males...
...cover portrait of choreographer Bill T. Jones, as well as all the photographs of black artists accompanying the story, were shot by staff photographer Ted Thai. For good measure, Thai also took the striking portraits of Yale scholar Harold Bloom and hot young filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in this week's issue. As deputy picture editor MaryAnne Golon points out, "Ted has a gift for thinking of imaginative ways to incorporate an artist's discipline into a photograph." To incorporate the marvelous achievements of today's African-American artists into the frame of a cover story, all of our Black Renaissance...