Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...description might come from any dust jacket, but Novelist Ashton-Warner's portrait is all but unique. Germaine de Beauvais. a young Parisian concert pianist who exiles herself to New Zealand after the death of her husband, is a woman as convincingly evoked as Emma Bovary or Molly Bloom. The narrative is a first-person reverie; a stream of consciousness, then a torrent, then a willful, feminine shutting down of thought. Germaine is mirrored in the flow of words as well as in their content. Prose of a different texture would be necessary if she were older, or merely...
...CYNTHIA BLOOM: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS at the NOVA GALLERY starting Tuesday until...
...summer. Ever since, passing tourists and fellow fanciers have been hastening to reassure him that he was right as rain. Something of a momentous nature has indeed happened to British women. Softly, silently, in the beneficent climate of Britain's postwar affluence, they have burst forth into startling bloom. The transformation should end, hopefully forever, the long winter of discontent when British women stood armored in well-tailored tweeds and wool stockings, their feet sensibly shod against all weather. Only touch of blight: the slowness of British males to notice the change. Snapped one young belle...
MAURICE J. BLOOM The Bronx...
...Oberammergau Passion Play), stamp collectors (London's International Exhibition in July), golfers (following the tournaments and playing the best courses in the British Isles). For James Joyce fans, it is even possible to be conducted on a lurch through Dublin in the steps of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, taking two hours or two days, depending on how many "balls of malt" (Irish whisky) are downed en route. Touring cost for two: $6 in a horse-drawn Dublin cab. For $2.50 from West Berlin there is a guaranteed-safe-return tour, including bleak Communist East Berlin...