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Word: blooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of his wide-ranging fantasies, the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses imagined himself invested with the scarlet mantle and gold chain of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. To Joyce, Leopold Bloom's dream was doubly fanciful because-he was a Jew−and what chance would a Jew have of becoming major of Dublin town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Wonderful Gesture | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Richard III. Shakespeare's sinister parable of power is made into a darkly magnificent film by Sir Laurence Olivier, who plays the title role with satanic majesty. Supporting cast: Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom, Pamela Brown (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...terrain, are among the best recorded. Though he never lost sight of his practical objectives, he never ceased to be exhilarated by the wild beauty of his surroundings. In the Rockies, as he was about to move forward on foot, he noted that "there were some fine asters in bloom." The scene before him was "a gigantic disorder of enormous masses, and a savage sublimity of naked rock, in wonderful contrast with innumerable green spots of a rich floral beauty shut up in their stern recesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pathmarker | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Richard III. Shakespeare's sinister parable of power made into a darkly magnificent film by Sir Laurence Olivier, who plays the title role with satanic majesty. The supporting cast: Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Stop the Music! In Cleveland, Carnival Singer Nancy Hall Bloom got a divorce on her testimony that her husband's repeated taunts gave her hives, told the judge: "He makes me so nervous my lips swell and I can't sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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