Word: blasco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very nearly a first-rate novel. It becomes so, not by virtue of Maugham's mastery of form, great as it is, or his humor, of which too much has been made, nor his skepticism, which sometimes grows wearisome. It is distinguished for its portrait of Bishop Blasco de Valero. The devout prelate, self-sacrificing, presiding with terrible humility and conscientiousness over the trials of heretics, is a masterly portrait, equal to Maugham's best, and belonging well up in the gallery of modern fiction...
Spanish names made tragic news: Madrid reported that Mario, son of the late, best-selling Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), had been sentenced to twelve years in prison on a charge of having once been a Mason. He might get a commutation: he is paralyzed, deaf and nearly blind...
...Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When a Man's a Man; 1917-H. G. Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through; 1919-V. Blasco Ibáñez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams; 1921-Sinclair Lewis' Main Street; 1922-A. S. M. Hutchinson's If Winter Comes; 1923-Gertrude Ather-ton's Black Oxen; 1924-Edna Ferber...
Blood and Sand (20th Century-Fox). As Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez described him, Juan Gallardo was a matador who believed that bulls and women were created for the sole purpose of giving him glory and pleasure. A poor boy who came up the hard way, he was the idol of Spain's bull rings and boudoirs until a disrespectful bull punctured his vast ego with a well-directed horn. He died bitterly within the sound of the fight fans acclaiming their new hero of the afternoon...