Word: icarus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today and Tomorrow Series" continues to increase and multiply. It cannot be said that it is maintaining the standard of excellence set by its first few volumes. Since Haldane's Baedalus, Russell's replying Icarus and Crookshank's Mongol in Our Midst, many of the little red books have enjoyed prestige that was largely borrowed. Bertrand Russell wrote a second book (What I Believe), as did Dr. Crookshank (Aesculapius) that stood on independent merits. The feminist controversy between Mrs. Russell and Captain Ludovici (Hypatia v. Lysistrata) was very readable, though biased on both sides. Gerald Heard's Narcissus?An Anatomy...
...Dyke's Daedalus and Icarus betrays the influence of Rubens. The choice of subject, the richness of hues, the transparency of the shadows, all are in the Rubens tradition. Reynolds has two other canvases in this collection-one of Lady Spencer and her son Viscount Althorp, playing with a black and white cocker-spaniel; one of the Marchioness Camden, seated with a naively histrionic air, upon the ground...
...From Icarus on, famous flyers have usually been less than 30 years of age ?famous pilots, that is. But it must be remembered that it was an older man, Daedalus, an engineer and a sculptor, who designed the Icarian monoplane and successfully flew it from Crete to Italy...