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...Goldbergs; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Raised in the large, loving lap of an East Harlem Jewish family ("We didn't have Tennessee Williams problems," she once said. "It was more George Kaufman"), she had only to elaborate on her memories ("Yoohoo, Mrs. Bloom!") to sustain the 25-year run of her show, whose momentum carried her to Hollywood (Molly) and Broadway (A Majority of One) as leading popularizer of the formidable art of Jewish motherhood...
...intellectual who lives with his nice wife and their two nice children until-CHOONG! The Cuban missile crisis blows up his complacency and releases his alter ego: an unquiet Quixote who jumps on the nearest jet and goes whooshing across the U.S. in search of his true identity. Like Bloom in darkling Dublin, like Mitty in the mazes of Waterbury, Conn., he dissolves into fantasies elaborated to suggest simultaneously a madness in himself and in America. Headlines, brand names, movie stars, sports heroes, billboards, road signs, dirty jokes-they whirl in his head like garbage in a Disposall. And what...
University of Chicago Education Professor Benjamin S. Bloom, an N.E.A. consultant, contends that half of a 17-year-old's intelligence is developed by the time he is four, another 30% between four and eight. School at ages four and five, he feels, could help a child "develop his language ability and a longer attention span, give him skills in learning to learn and establish relationships with others...
...wading through her husband's Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" Indeed, James Joyce did have a lot of perdition swimming about in his head, much of which he poured into his great wild tome on Leopold Bloom's odyssey through Dublin on the day and night of June 16, 1904. James and his mind were laid to rest in Zurich's Fluntern Cemetery in 1941, the grave distinguished only by a small headstone. For years Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness had thought that the grand...
...clearheaded armchair generalship. Bomb shelters are everywhere: at 8-ft. intervals between sidewalks and curbs sit concrete, barrel-sized holes for individuals to jump into, pulling manhole covers atop them. Slit trenches deface Hanoi's lovely leafy parks, where the flame trees last week were still in bloom, trunks neatly whitewashed...