Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a novel, Party of Animals, that he famously refuses to finish. To be sure, Brodkey's short fiction has occasionally appeared in magazines over the intervening decades. But it is his lonely struggle to produce a big book that has impressed some pretty influential folks. Yale professor Harold Bloom calls Brodkey "unparalleled in American prose fiction since the death of William Faulkner." Susan Sontag says Brodkey is "going for real stakes. I read every word he writes." The author, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side, has sometimes been willing to join the chorus of his admirers...
...THEBAN PLAYS (PBS, Sept. 16, 23, 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). Sophocles' tragic Oedipus trilogy gets world-class treatment in a BBC production starring Anthony Quayle and Claire Bloom...
Meanwhile, Sports Agents Norby Walters, Lloyd Bloom and David Lueddeke were indicted by a grand jury in Chicago, along with former Ohio State Receiver Cris Carter, on charges involving improper payments to college athletes. Such charges are customarily leveled only by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Throughout a long and public investigation, Walters' position has been that Frank Merriwell is dead, and so what if a few undergraduates lose their eligibility in the rush to riches? The N.C.A.A. rules have no weight of real...
...grand jury, however, took seriously certain hints to defecting clients having to do with bone breaking. Walters and Bloom characterized the atmosphere as good-humored. Nonetheless, racketeering, mail fraud, obstruction of justice and a few other terms not found in the playbooks made their way into the sports section. Brent Fullwood of the Packers, Paul Palmer of the Chiefs and Ronnie Harmon of the Bills headed a list of 43 named but unindicted former Walters and Bloom clients who cut pretrial deals involving community service and scholarship refunds. So sports are not above the law after...
Ireland must be important," says Stephen Dedalus to Bloom, "because it belongs to me." Nora is important because she belongs to Joyce and because she never did. She was the stronger of the two, an independent spirit who had far more influence on him than...