Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston. His paintings won him a reputation. His prose poems, written in Arabic and translated by himself, brought him readers who became disciples. By 1910 Gibran was settled in a large fourth-floor studio in Manhattan. Short but powerful, he wore robes, painted allegorical pictures, strongly influenced by William Blake's, in which vague, shapely nudes emerged from misty backgrounds. He spoke in solemnly portentous phrases: "We have eternity. . . ." "The soul is mightier than space...." "Silence is one of the mysteries of love. . . ." He was also a practical Lebanese patriot, who planned reforestation and irrigation projects for his native...
...knack of piling on pressure at the proper moment makes a man like Hector ("Toe") Blake hard to beat-at hockey, poker, or a business deal. The Montreal Canadiens' veteran left-winger (and poker player) is old enough (31) by peacetime hockey standards to be heading for the minors, but he still has plenty of the know-how that brought him the point-making crown back...
...Blake bagged his other bonus by another hairbreadth: the Canadiens squeezed through the holiday with a bare one-point, league-leading edge over the Detroit Red Wings. The Detroiters had been all but unbeatable in recent weeks, and looked like likely first-placers when they met the Canadiens in a midseason "crucial game" last week. Blake, Richard and Lach promptly busted that bubble; their eight goals and eight assists, with Right-Winger Richard going on a five-goal spree, added up to a crushing 9-to-1 victory...
...volume containing 85 excellent color reproductions, ranging from a 13th-Century Byzantine Madonna and Child to Paul Cézanne's 19th-Century Still Life. Paired off with each picture are such superior selections from world literature as Nathaniel Hawthorne on Fra Angelico, Walter Pater on Botticelli, William Blake on William Blake...
...doctor, young Auden at first doted on photography, engineering, motorcycles and whales. But he soon turned to poetry, by the early 1930s was the leader of Britain's famed, leftist "Auden Circle." Like most original poets, Auden experimented constantly with the styles and techniques of his predecessors-Donne, Blake, Byron, Housman, Yeats, Rilke. He wrote sharply satirical leftish poems (The Orators, The Dance of Death), co-authored verse dramas with Isherwood (The Ascent of F6, The Dog Beneath the Skin), edited anthologies (The Oxford Book of Light Verse), turned out some of the most sparkling verse of his time...