Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...churches should re-examine their tax-free status, said Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Council of Churches, "before the U.S. may find itself dominated by the wealth of a church or churches, so that at last no alternative but revolution and expropriation will be before the people . . . One of the reasons for what popular support remains for the Communist governments is the people's satisfaction that at least one good thing has been accomplished-the wealth and political domination of the church has been broken...
Yale, on the other hand, boasts a power-packed lineup of three excellent runners in Tom Cathcart, John Morrison, and Steve Johnson. Behind these three come Ed Slowik, Eric Walther, and John Blake, sufficient depth to hand the freshmen their first defeat of the season...
James has nine returning lettermen on the line, covering every position but right tackle. All-Ivy end Stan Intihar will of course be missed, but James has three experienced men in Bob Blake, Chuck Knight, and Gerry Knapp. Blake and Knight were leading reserves last season, while Knapp, an all-around track man, was a regular...
Snipping gleefully at skirt-lengths of the past, Graves maintains that "the whole period between, say, Marvell and Blake was poetically barren." The two greats of the period, Dryden and Pope, he mercilessly unwigs: "[Dryden] earned the doubtful glory of having found English poetry brick and left it marble-native brick, imported marble." And Pope was a "sedulous ape." The 19th century fares little better. Wordsworth, according to Graves, "disowned and betrayed his Muse. Tennyson never had one, except Arthur Hallam, and a Muse does not wear whiskers...
...Outsider is an exhaustive and luminously intelligent study of a representative theme of our time . . . truly astounding." Part of the critical hubbub rose from the fact that Author Wilson, just turned 25, shows a staggeringly erudite grasp of the works and lives of Bernard Shaw, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William Blake, George Fox, H. G. Wells, Henri Barbusse, Hermann Hesse, Van Gogh, T. E. Lawrence, Nijinsky, Sartre, Camus, Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Gurdjieff and Sri Ramakrishna, not to mention many lesser figures. But what makes The Outsider a compelling intellectual thriller is that Author Wilson uses...