Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Bok last week criticized the widely-debated book by Professor Allan Bloom, "The Closing of the American Mind", calling it "a mean spirited book" that offers an anachronistic view of American education...
...LEADING critic of contemporary liberal education, Allan Bloom, has railed against such historicism. He decries the notion that man's being is essentially historical, and his work never transcendent. It will not please him that great books will be taught by the historians of Robinson Hall...
...Bloom makes the compelling point that the teaching of the classic texts holds a unique potential to bring students and professors closer. Classic works are the common intellectual property of all, teacher and student alike. Specialized academic study, in contrast, inevitably leaves students at an enormous and often stifling intellectual disadvantage to their professors. Anything which brings History department faculty closer to the student body is something to be welcomed...
Farmer discovered that chlorine compounds bloom as the hole appears each year. His theory: the compounds condense onto ice crystals during the polar winter; then, as spring nears in early September, the chlorine is warmed by the sun and converted into a reactive form that can destroy ozone. The presence of fluorine in the atmosphere supports the view that these chlorine compounds are of man-made origin. "There isn't any fluorine in the upper atmosphere from any natural source," says Farmer. This suggests that the source of the accompanying chlorine is chlorofluorocarbons...
...summer' s best- selling surprises are by two heavyweight authors -- Philosophy Professor Allan Bloom and English Professor E. D. Hirsch Jr. Though their books are not easy going, readers find the stinging critiques riveting. Hirsch claims that U. S. schools are turning out culturally illiterate students, while Bloom charges that colleges have failed altogether...