Word: blooms
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...suggested in a speech that no one could be considered faultless, he was forced to admit that "Chairman Mao and Comrade Liu Shao-chi and a few other leaders have achieved the stage of perfection." Liu even opposed Mao Tse-tung on the "let a hundred flowers bloom" theory and-in Communist terms-was proved right. He annoys Soviet officials by telling them that Russians are not capable of understanding China, and displays the contempt of an old street agitator for the commanding generals of the Red Chinese army. A man unlovely and unloved, Liu Shao-chi resembles Stalin...
...feet," back-somersaulted four times, then opened his chute to float to earth. His only memorable injury: a chipped ankle bone. His pilot, Captain Harry B. Davis, a Negro fighter-pilot veteran of the Korean war, was not so lucky, died after his parachute failed to bloom properly...
...they progressed and sought personal vocabularies, the two painters began to diverge in their statements. The loss to Bloom in this exhibition is precisely that his mature expression, of which color is a strong positive factor, is largely missing. The chandelier series, the amputated limb series--harder to take than Soutine's carcasses but fine painting all the same--are unfortunately absent...
...carried off to advantage in the arts, but it has a way of corrupting all but the strongest. Some of Levine's much heralded larger canvases plead excessively where their business is to resolve. In this respect, a splendid containment and innate dignity comprise one major superiority of Bloom over his contemporary...
...Bloom's other major advantage has to do with the attachment to the old masters which neither ever yielded. It is Bloom's very emancipation from the confining aspects of this love which proves that he gleaned most from...