Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sofu Teshigahara has written. "The silent beauty of a flower surpasses them all. Among beautiful women there are said to be silent beautiful women, but none can compare with the silent flower." Sofu (the name means Blue Wind) is revered for such views in a land where a beautiful blossom is a benison. Round, gnome-like Teshigahara, 77, is Japan's most innovative and successful master of the ancient art of ikebana, which bears about the same relationship to flower arranging as usually practiced in the West as Rachmaninoff to country rock. Within that art, Sofu is commonly referred...
...century; it started with floral offerings laid at the altars. Sofu has made it a highly secular art and brought it into the age of abstract expressionism. His Grass Moon school has gone beyond the simple (but stunning) classical ikebana arrangements of a bent twig and a dewy blossom arrayed in a water vase or a bamboo tube. In containers that may be ceramic sculptures or Chinese wine kegs, Sofu will blend the blooms with shells, stones, iron, leaves, driftwood, dried grass, dead flowers or dyed feathers. Explaining his break with tradition, he once proclaimed: "We should always look forward...
...have 15 to 30 more years to teach." The only faintly promising news concerns writing courses, once considered dreary and even declasse assignments. Now colleges all over the country are bringing back more or less rigorous composition requirements, and a number of job openings in new writing programs do blossom occasionally...
...tells a different story. Viewed from space, the real Egypt?the land that man can live on?is small and lotus-shaped. A thin, two-to ten-mile-wide strip of green, the flower's stem, follows the Nile north from the Sudan border; then, near Cairo, comes the blossom, the Nile Delta. In that narrow space of 13,800 sq. mi., no larger than Taiwan, live 37.8 million people, or 97% of the country's population. Almost all the rest of Egypt is brutal, dun-colored desert, unchanged and scarcely touched since the pharaohs. Egypt today is still...
Flesh and Blood begins like another version of Rocky. The tale of his protagonist, Bobby Fallon, does not blossom into a sweet romance with a girl who becomes very beautiful when she takes off those big glasses of hers. Rather, Fallon falls in love with his mother to set the stage for an incestuous relationship that reveals nothing but perversity, lacking in any sort of meaning, and leaving the book without much purpose or plot...