Word: bloomerism
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Paul Green, H.H.D., playwright. At the age of 82, the late-bloomer is still blooming, having just completed We the People...
...family's stay in the White House: when pomp threatens to overwhelm any proceeding, the Fords counter with their disarming lack of pretension. "I had never thought about being First Lady," says the President's wife. "So I decided-I'm just going to be Betty Bloomer Ford." She both has and hasn't, and that may be her chief charm and canniest success as First Lady. Not long ago, after the White House domestic staff had turned in for the night, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger came up to the family quarters to report...
...things I have had to go through, with much more courage than I would have had without her." The First Lady, 57, was having her first reunion with her former mentor in more than three decades. Back in the late 1930s, Mrs. Ford was Betty Bloomer from Grand Rapids, a tyro member of the Graham entourage. After watching a brief rehearsal at the Graham school in Manhattan, Betty gave Martha a $125 check for a ticket to a benefit performance this week on behalf of her company. "The dance, or her memory of it, has kept her beautiful," observed...
Jenufa 's slow recognition in the U.S. bears coincidental resemblance to its composer's career. If ever there was a late bloomer, it was Janáček. A Moravian, he was professor of composition but wrote little of consequence himself before he was 40. He completed Jenufa in 1903 when he was 49. It received its "overnight" success a dozen years later. He wrote several other operas, including From the House of the Dead, which is almost a speculation on Dostoyevsky's novel, and The Makropoulos Affair, a fantastic showpiece for orchestra...
...name was not Dutch, his behavior and appearance were: stolid, slightly ponderous but engagingly open. He won by a 2-to-l margin, and in twelve subsequent elections he never carried the district with less than 60% of the vote. During the campaign, he received help from Elizabeth Bloomer Warren, a Grand Rapids fashion coordinator who had once studied dance with Martha Graham. Three weeks before the election and eleven months after her first marriage ended in divorce, she and Jerry were wed. They then picked up to go to Washington, where they have lived ever since...