Word: blake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samuel Marshak's Twelve Months is the only surprise package in the book-and the best. Author Marshak is a translator of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shakespeare, Burns, and his new play is a lyrical fantasy on the old Christmas pantomime model, complete with the wicked old woman, Cinderella-girl, a young queen, talking animals and magic wands. Twelve Months does nothing to establish a new tradition, but it does add charm and poetry to a very...
When William Blake wrote these lines he had been touched by the spectacle of English children, more than a hundred years ago, at a Holy Thursday service in St. Paul's. But his lines describe, no less perfectly, the thousands of little boys & girls who, this Christmas season as for centuries past, swarmed into the theaters of Britain for the Christmas Pantomime. And they describe what went on in the spirits of many men & women who had come along, nominally, to tend incontinent noses and to retrieve lost toys and mittens, but who were there, in deeper fact...
...fantasies are noisily colorful, and there are strong realistic moments, as when Chris suddenly goes to pieces. Nor is there anything particularly false in what happens. There is just nothing freshly, uniquely true. Even so, Christopher Blake might be pretty effective theater if the writing were not often so flat, or the general effect so top-heavy...
...English Department. But because, for one reason and another, both of them refused to disgorge the prescribed number of published pages by the prescribed date, they have gone elsewhere, leaving an unfilled gap in the Department behind them. The enthusiastic reception of Schorer's book on William Blake, published subsequent to his departure from Harvard, is evidence of the fallaciousness of the University's insistence on published research as the dominant criterion of its Faculty appointments...
Most of them were men in their fifties -the 14 women averaged 20 years younger. When the last two chairs were filled, sandy-mustached FTC Commissioner Lowell Blake Mason rose and said "Good morning"; FTC Attorney John Wilson said a simple grace, and breakfast got under way in contemplative silence. For the benefit of the conversationally inclined, slips of paper were placed at intervals along the table, bearing the typewritten admonition...