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Broadway has had its share of nebbishy musical stars, from Seymour Krelboyne in The Little Shop of Horrors to Leo Bloom in The Producers. But it's fair to say that no stage has ever been so densely populated with wacky misfits as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The off-Broadway musical, a sleeper hit that is moving to Broadway next month, charts the angst of six nerdy and needy young people as they wrestle down words like capybara and omphaloskepsis in their efforts to win a trip to the national spelling finals. Coming on the heels...
...professor of political philosophy at the University of Chicago, Bloom unleashed a storm of criticism last year with his book, The Closing of the American Mind, an acidic assault on the way the U.S. educates its young people and on the decline of intellectuality in national life. Liberal academics, defending the trend toward de-emphasis of the classics, responded that Bloom's prescriptions are unsuited to a society as heterogeneous as America's. The book has sold 800,000 copies and has just been issued in paperback. TIME senior correspondent William McWhirter spent four hours with Bloom, 58, surrounded...
...What would you propose instead for the American university? Is there an equivalent ideal of Bloom's campus, and what kinds of students and faculty might be found there...
...artist’s cohesive statement, soundtracks have returned as albums in their own right, mix-tapes evocative of the particular feel and mood of a film. It’s a return to the association of a song with a moment—much like the bloom in the late ’80s, when Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” achieved fame as the Breakfast Club crew finally departed detention...
Last week, The Valley News reported that in a private letter written four years ago by Dartmouth College Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg to Swarthmore College President Alfred Bloom, Furstenberg praised Bloom’s decision to disband the Swarthmore football program. But, Furstenberg didn’t stop there...