Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months of frozen silence, the sun reappears as a long, slanting shaft that illuminates only the highest peaks. Each day the light descends, until finally even the deepest valley is bathed in warmth. The ice breaks, roaring like cannon fire, and the ground explodes with color as wild flowers bloom. Big bears stagger out of hibernation. Rivers teem with salmon, grayling and char. Caribou march in long single files toward new feeding grounds. Glacial ice glitters like emeralds and sapphires. The world seems reborn...
...antidote to campus disorder, dozens of U.S. colleges have lately invited students to share the chores of administration. Key faculty committees boast voting student members; boards of trustees bloom with recent graduates. Now the trustees of New Hampshire's Franconia College have gone a step farther. They have just named a graduate student as the school's new president. He is Leon Botstein...
That really did it for Roger. He lost his remaining sensory connection-the blur extending as if from his mind out along the nerves to his eyes themselves. It was Spring then, and flowers were beginning to bloom, but if Roger was aware of them, it was only as a new blur, a distraction peculiar to the Spring. When he speaks, it is of his loneliness. He talks about girls, out there in the blur, hopelessly beyond approach. I see him shaking and picking at his skin, rapping out ten-minute long sentences. They are built like castles, but always...
...free herself from the molasses morass of Disney pictures (The Three Lives of Thomasind) and from the "sweet, soppy, boring" debutante roles in which she was stuck. At one point, a columnist quoted her as saying she needed "somebody like Roger Vadim to bring me to full bloom...
...several of these were also found to contain isotopes of the gas. In addition, two clouds showed definite traces of cyanide, a combination of carbon and nitrogen that had already been detected optically far off in the Milky Way. "We made it look so easy," Penzias jokes, "that the bloom may soon be off the business of finding molecules in space...