Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deliver three lectures a year, judge one play and one essay contest. He has plenty of other work of his own to keep him busy. A prolific poet (ten volumes published), he also writes mystery thrillers ( The Beast Must Die, Minute for Murder) under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is translating the Aeneid for the BBC's Third Program, will shortly publish a long travel poem, Italian Visit...
Died. Sir Charles Blake Cochran, 78, England's leading showman ("The British Barnum"); of injuries suffered in scalding bath water, which he was too crippled by arthritis to turn off; in London. Shrewd "C.B." started out selling a quack ointment in the U.S., wound up selling Britain's top stars (Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence) to transatlantic theatergoers. Specializing in both beauty ("Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies") and beasts (he introduced rodeo to a somewhat startled England), he promoted anything he considered a good show ("I would rather see a good juggler than a bad Hamlet...
Edmund J. Blake, Jr., Chairman, Dunster Dance Committee; John C. Blankenship, Chairman, Winthrop Dance Committee; Donald T. Fox, Chairman, Eliot Dance Committee; Jack N. Freyhof, Chairman, Adams Dance Committee; Joel Rome and Paul H. Voreacos, Co-Chairmen, Kirkland Dance Committee; Miles I. Levine, Chairman, Lowell Dance Committee...
...William Blake, 16 years the junior of Fuseli, Mortimer and Barry, drew, maintains Grigson, as badly as Barry-and "Little-Lambishly" besides. Blake once showed a drawing to Fuseli with the boast that the Virgin Mary herself had appeared to him and said it was very fine. Defiantly Blake added: "What can you say to that?" "Say?" exclaimed Fuseli. "Why, nothing-only that her ladyship has not immaculate taste...
...Blake's coat is too long," Grigson concludes, "and he can spare an inch or two for his now destitute forerunners." But Blake well deserves his long coat. Like a great artist, and unlike Fuseli, Mortimer and Barry, he pictured the heights with as much vision as he did the abyss...