Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Blake's sketch of a thief in the toils of a serpent was included in a collection of old masters' drawings at the Durlacher Gallery. It shows the British mystic at his most frightening. Blake learned Italian in old age simply to read Dante, illustrated The Divine Comedy both to complement and criticize Dante's philosophy. For Blake, hell was on earth, not in the afterworld, but still he found it real enough. In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries...
...Glenn P. Blake 2Dv, associate editor of the Scribe, stated, "In searching for a new dean, far afield, it would seem as though the University has overlooked the most qualified man, who is right here in our midst as Acting Dean of the school...
...Under Williams' administration," according to Blake, "the Dean's office has been strengthened and reorganized, the school's enrollment has increased, and there still remains a wide distribution of theological beliefs represented among the student body...
...Blake stated that "as a scholar in Church History, Professor Williams is second to none. Add to this his excellent administrative ability, and you have the necessary qualities for a good Dean...
Captain's Paradise. In Monroe, Mich., after radar clocked him going at 38 m.p.h. in a 25-mile zone, Greyhound Bus Driver Blake F. Glass indignantly drove his 30 passengers to police court, where they backed up his plea of innocent, won him an acquittal...