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...present show is of his serious work and contains many of the original drawings for Wilderness. The surprising characteristic is the direct and sure technique, with few alterations and erasures. More recent works are Figure Head, the prow of a ship against a black night sea; The House of Dread, The Burial of a Young Man. Kent shows a command of the mysterious-not the deep, impenetrable mystery of the warm Russians, but a clear, clean mystery, inspired by arctic nights and a cold climate...
Strike thy dread shackles from the limbs...
...people cheer and clap? No! There was little enthusiasm and much dread evinced at the thought of a return to parliamentary government. Thousands of people in thousands of letters and telegrams urged the Premier to "carry on" as Dictator...
...because of the larger possibilities of the U. S. This fear is not ungrounded. Fokker is negotiating for the purchase of one of the largest aircraft factories, and is studying an air route from Detroit to Chicago and St. Louis. American manufacturers regard him with very mixed feelings. They dread his competition in securing Government contracts, but would be delighted to see him use his unique experience in air transportation in an experimental air-line venture here...
...management of the modern world. The crop of discord, war, hate, and international rivalry which the ill-timed pacifism of Gladstone and the brilliant but wholly unmoral opportunism of Disraeli sowed has come to fruition, but the great Victorians failed to leave a generation capable of dealing with this dread harvest. Instead, they left a group of statesmen trained to govern a Victorian World, men stable financially, economically, and politically, but wholly incapable of doing anything more active than to look on with helpless bewilderment when the world all at once became unstable and kaleidoscopic in its complexion...