Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. George Blake, 44, British diplomat turned Soviet spy, who triggered a national prison-security scandal last October when he sawed his way out of London's Wormwood Scrubbs, where he was serving a 42-year sentence, and presumably fled the country; by Gillian Blake, 33; on grounds of cruelty; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in London...
DISRAELI by Robert Blake. 819 pages. St. Martin...
...Dizzy" had going for him, as Oxford Historian Robert Blake makes abundantly clear, was genius. Not only was he a man of spectacular deeds, he was also a racy and prolific author of social and political fiction (twelve novels), master of the epigram rivaled only by Oscar Wilde and, says Blake with the refreshing lack of equivocation that distinguishes his book, "the best letter writer among all English statesmen...
Survival Factor. The best but not necessarily the most truthful. "Throughout his life," Blake warns, "Benjamin Disraeli was addicted to romance and care less about facts." He was invariably the hero of his own self-created myth, and because he could write all his contem poraries under the table, his version of events tended to survive longer than anyone else's. The famous, ponderous six-volume biography by Moneypenny and Buckle, published in 1920, often fell prey to this charm beyond the grave. It also abetted the myth-later given its crudest expression in the George Arliss film...
...Blake peels the petals off this flowery picture with loving precision. Disraeli was born in 1804, in no sense underprivileged. His father Isaac was a well-known, successful anthologist with a pleasant country house and an entree into at least the second rank of English society. Dizzy could have gone to the Establishment schools if he had wanted to-both his younger brothers attended Winchester-but he skipped school to get on with the great game of life, for already ambition was burning a hole in his dandy's pockets...