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Researcher and health policy expert Barry R. Bloom was named the next dean of the School of Public Health, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced on June...
...microbiology and immunology professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Manhattan, Bloom brings a scientific perspective to important public health issues, Rudenstine said...
...useful fool, but Kudrow makes her funny and sympathetic. Her body language is eloquent--she walks like a constipated stork when her arms and tight lips aren't folded in disapproval of the whole rotten world. Attend to the pain in Lucia's eyes and then to the bloom of sexual radiance when she finds a man who says the magic words, "Look for me in any crowded room. And I'll do likewise...
Joyce later relented, and so the world learned that Ulysses was, among many other things, a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey, with Bloom as the wandering hero, Stephen as Telemachus and Molly as a Penelope decidedly less faithful than the original. T.S. Eliot, who recognized the novel's underpinnings, wrote that Joyce's use of classical myth as a method of ordering modern experience had "the importance of a scientific discovery...
...liking. When a fan approached him and asked, "May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?" Joyce said, "No, it did lots of other things too." But more important, Ulysses became a source book for 20th century literature. It expanded the domain of permissible subjects in fiction, following Bloom not only into his secret erotic fantasies but his outdoor privy as well...