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Neither abstract nor academic, he uses a selective symbolism that packs more into a fragment than many sculptors get in a whole figure. Mother and Child consists of a woman's head and arm, with a baby's head nestled peacefully in the palm of her hand. The double mask Time shows the same face in youth and old age. Zog of Albania commissioned Time last spring, lost his throne before it could be delivered. "Fortunately I received the mo-nee," says Fingesten with a grin, "and it paid for my passage to America...
...spring of 1909, at latitude N. 87° 47', he began the famed last lap, alone except for his Negro servant and four Eskimos. His claim: That in five days he covered the remaining 150 miles to the Pole (April 6), made the necessary observations, left a fragment of the flag and a message in a snow cairn, traveled the 150 miles back to the camp at 87° 47' in 56 hours...
...Jesus without believing Him the Messiah. By Author Asch's device, the Roman and the Jew were reincarnated in modern Poland, the one a crabbed and Jew-hating scholar, the other a young Jewish translator. Their association results in a third part of the book: a long, emotional fragment of a "lost Gospel" which the scholar, without revealing how he got it, claims was written by Judas Iscariot...
...Swan of Tuonela. Written in 1893, The Swan of Tuonela was originally part of a suite of four tone-poems illustrating the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, on which U. S. word-poet Longfellow modeled his Hiawatha. Of this suite only The Swan of Tuonela, and another, noisier fragment called Lemminkäinen's Homecoming have been published and performed. The manuscripts of the other two fragments were lost...
South Africa is the Empire's most distant fragment sentimentally. Jan Christiaan Smuts, Minister of Justice and hero of World War I, cautioned South Africans to discuss World War II as little as possible because they "are living far away and are not conversant with the facts." No official word was yet forthcoming from South Africa's boss, Prime Minister Hertzog. Possibly none could be expected until the guns began to shoot...