Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the North Vietnamese evidently going in as fast as the Americans are clearing out, a new enemy offensive could catch the U.S. off balance; in any case, the South Vietnamese will have to bear the brunt of any such concerted attack. Predictions of a big enemy offensive bloom perennially at this time of year, though none has taken place since Tet of 1968. Now intelligence experts point to the enemy's buildup of men and materiel and expect a major offensive early in 1971. The U.S. air attacks are meant to blunt that offensive before it comes. There...
...universe of specific experiences-the golden, fuzzy weight of a peach, the glaze of china, the density and pink warmth of an odalisque's leg. Klee was not interested; he abstracted, and made ideograms. Botanical Theater, 1924-34, is aptly named, for the ceremonious dance of leaf and bloom, formal as an Islamic tile, stands to real plants as puppets do to real people. Yet the plants are alive, and their vitality is in the probing, inquisitive line that flowed from Klee's pen. He was an astounding draftsman, one of the virtuosos of the century. Whether tracing...
...would point out the idea of fragmenting reality of piecing the world to death. A terribly effective comparison would be a doctor's visual document of a woman with a glandular disorder aside the "Earth Mother-Enormous" of James Sahlstrand. An enlarged frame from the film Ulysses of Molly Bloom jumping into bed with her lover, certainly would augment Steve Starr's embracing couple...
...sentimental journey back in time meeting first the Devil disguised as his old horse Prince, and then himself as a young man. It's a silly series of elaborations which I feel almost embarrassed to report, for the mortal failings of the Soldier were unintriguing enough in full bloom of youth, without sinking to this gratuitous nostalgia over his old age and death. There was a song, I believe, and the whole show winds up with Chestnut back in his trunk, giving his daughter some last-minute advice before shuffling off the mortal coil...
...decides to opt for survival. Marshall Bloom commits suicide, Bala-Bala leaves the country, Little Stevie dies. Mungo and his friends find themselves in the country, growing their own food, getting along with their neighbors, and watching the seasons come and go. The social analysis never comes; neither do the plans for ending the war or saving the country (which, he notes, doesn't seem very possible). It's all a bit romantic, a bit too familiar an impulse, and perhaps as impossible as all the other schemes. But that's not his concern, and he deserves the last word...