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Fuseli's most ambitious fantasies, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, led one critic to assert that he "expressed the terror and the evanescence of the world of phantoms, with a power unequaled by any painter that ever lived." His Nightmare (in which a luminous horse's head thrusts between a sleeping lady's bed curtains) was reproduced everywhere, became almost as well-known as Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Even to William Blake, who had ten times his genius and only one-tenth his contemporary reputation, Fuseli...
...type of man willingly admits that he did it and he feels all set up about it. Such a man, says Dr. Reider, often turns out to be a neurotic who has an unconscious desire to assert his virility. There is also the "Don Juan" type who tries to cover up a feeling of inadequacy with a life of carefree promiscuity. Some men, Dr. Reider believes, are even motivated in their illegitimate parenthood by a desire to get married...
...when Byrnes sat back and told all who cared to listen that the great thing was to get the other fellow's point of view, when Byrnes saw the U.S. role as that of mediator-until he saw the unreality of that role, quit mediating and began to assert some U.S. ideas...
...John spoke of death and terror in the bowels of the earth. When he mentioned the widows and children of Centralia's dead, his voice sank to a whisper. He cried: "If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine . . . then before God I assert that those who consume coal owe them and their families protection. ... I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it. . . ." Roaring, whispering or hammering the table, he always swiveled back to his target-Krug...
...weather permits, the talks, which Observatory officials assert will be of a "short, non-technical" nature, will be followed by telescopic observation...