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...Jessie Bloom...
...exactly a reprise of Mao Tse-tung's celebrated 1956 call to "let a hundred flowers bloom," but at least a few buds were in sight. After a decade of cultural starvation, book lovers in China have suddenly been able to buy four novels and two poems that had long been banned; five other proscribed works have been announced for future publication. The return to grace of these forbidden works is part of the continuing campaign against the Gang of Four, headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing. At a Peking literary forum...
...Bloom's lame defense: he had assumed that whatever he knew about Lance's banking background was also known to Carter staffers who were handling Lance's nomination and supposed they had passed such information to the Ribicoff committee. Yet Bloom had, in fact, warmly endorsed Lance in a letter to that committee and in the classified FBI report. He noted only briefly that the comptroller's office had found some problems at the Calhoun bank?a reference Bloom claimed should have been taken as a "red flag." He certainly did; he kept documents related to those problems locked...
...Bloom also said that at Lance's request, he had not even told the FBI that the comptroller had worked out a cease-and-desist agreement with the Calhoun bank in December 1975. Lance had told him this might needlessly hurt the bank's business. Bloom's action was not without basis, since the comptroller's office cannot legally reveal the existence of such enforcement agreements without approval of the affected bank. The agreement required the end of all overdrafts to Lance and his family, ordered the bank to upgrade its loose lending practices, even questioned Lance's bank salary...
...within the year was in Hollywood. Like the character he portrayed in Woody Allen's film The Front, Mostel was blacklisted during the McCarthy years. He made a triumphant return to the entertainment world, however, in the 1958 Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown, playing Leopold Bloom. In his varied roles onstage and in film-from the hapless movie entrepreneur in The Producers to the man turned beast in Ionesco's The Rhinoceros-Mostel was the master of paradoxes: a graceful fat man and a wise buffoon...