Word: blake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach: K. Blake Dennison...
...With a hitherto untranslated collection of letters to draw upon, Author Turner shows Mozart to be a lusty, even ribald character, with a stout heart, a lively sympathy for his fellow man-and woman. Reminding his readers that Mozart's generation was also Goethe's and William Blake's, that its spirit was in fact romantic and revolutionary rather than classical, Critic Turner ends romantically by finding Mozart's music equivalent to William Shakespeare...
Lindley James Burton, Wayzata, Minnesota--Blake School, Minneapolis, Minnesota...
Curious parallels show in the two authors' backgrounds as well. Son of a Midwest surgeon, pseudonymous William Blake, now in his 403, has been a broker and financial editor in Wall Street and Europe, four years ago went into the grain business in Antwerp, where Christina
Whether or not Author Blake's hero is an improvement on Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, he cannot be called an imitation. Cristobal Hernando Pinzon, handsome, precocious hero of the tale, lives for a revenge that is all his own. At 21, on the eve of the World War, Cristobal is a director of a Jesuit bank, making a mere $50,000 a year. At War's end, his daring speculations have made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly...