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Dean of the Faculty of Public Health Barry R. Bloom, who was this year's Konrad Bloch lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said one of Bloch's most important achievements was working out the pathway for the biosynthesis of cholesterol...
...most challenging problems that had ever been undertaken in biochemistry at that point," Bloom wrote in an e-mail message. "His findings raised the level of complexity that could be dealt with in biochemistry...
...mean to dismiss the intellectual life for others. A while back, I saw Harold Bloom, the great old Yale professor and author, most recently of How to Read and Why, talking on C-SPAN's Booknotes. Weepy, flabby, brilliant, he was full of hope and sorrow for the literary life that is mistreated and unvalued today. He spoke up for Cervantes and Shakespeare. He had "divorced" the Yale English department. He hated e-books. If you have a mind like Bloom's, no problem...
...rising above all that, and above all the disappointment of time and reality, as from the bottom of a swimming pool, is Gatsby still, better than the rest of them, and, I suppose, Bloom too, for whom life remains a romantic matter...
...Bloom. I'd take being young and strong any day of the week, and twice on Sundays. Here come the baseball play-offs. Here comes the basketball season. Here comes the past. In the twilight, I peer across the bay at the flickering light, and cling to the remote...