Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climb from the coast through Ngoan Muc Pass brings travelers to a plateau strewn magnificently with poinsettia trees the size of small maples, all in bloom. A thousand varieties of orchid are said to grow in the province, and mimosa vines with delicate, mauve flowers climb innumerable trellises. At the 52-room Dalat Palace Hotel, completed in 1923, Headwaiter Hoang Van Tu serves meals, as he has since 1942 to the likes of Charles de Gaulle, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and even the Emperor, Bao Dai himself. There is nothing imperial about the hostelry today, but the mosquito netting hanging...
...conference included speeches, panel discussions and problemsolving workshops run by business and education experts such as Edson Spencer, chairman of Honeywell, and Allan Bloom, author of the bestselling book "The Closing of the American Mind...
Once a week the students attend "The Repertory Ideal" with Brustein and Riddell to discuss dramatic issues and meet with guests like director David Mamet. Last week the students had a question and answer session with actress Claire Bloom, who advised them to "keep your eyes open" for opportunity...
...nation that commonly confers celebrity on its discordant intellectuals. Yet in the past eight months, several feisty scholars have pounded academe, as well as society in general, and seen their books turn into unlikely best sellers. University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind attacked U.S. universities for dereliction of their duty to educate. The University of Virginia's E.D. Hirsch Jr. in Cultural Literacy blasted U.S. schools for failing to teach Western culture. Latest to join the list of academic provocateurs: Russell Jacoby, a former visiting scholar at the University of California...
That assertion now has an unintended irony in light of the three authors' public success. Last Intellectuals is in its second printing, and while it has not yet matched Bloom's and Hirsch's sales, it is a brisk seller and has sparked spirited debate over its thesis. America, Jacoby says, is producing no young crop of heirs to the great public writer-thinkers like H.L. Mencken and Thorstein Veblen, whose works set directions and standards 60 and 70 years ago. Nor, he notes, have successors emerged for the current senior generation of broad-gauge university scholars like David Riesman...