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Minority Report
Hitches, Christopher | May 15, 2000 issue

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Allan Bloom, the neoconservative panjandrum who helped spice up the Reaganite intellectual atmosphere by producing "The Closing of the American Mind," in 1987, was a homosexual, and that when he died in 1992 the report about liver failure was a cover story. He died of AIDS. It's also known that the character Abe Ravelstein, eponymous hero of Saul Bellow's newest novel, is not just modeled on Bloom but is Bloom, so to speak, to the life. The subject's homosexuality is still mentioned, and so are some treatments for the AIDS virus, but the connection between the two has been somewhat blurred.

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CLOSING of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy & Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students, The (Book); BLOOM, Allan; GAYS; HOMOSEXUALITY; SEXUAL orientation; HIV (Viruses)
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