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...Kierkegaard, who died in 1855, is slowly being excavated from the Danish. Had this philosopher and mystic not written in a minor language, his fame would have resounded with that of Carlyle, Nietzsche, Dostoevski. It was upon Kierkegaard's assertion of romantic individualism that Scandinavian literature in the last century rose to world-famed greatness and influence. He was the prototype of Ibsen's gloomy cleric, Brand. Profound also was his influence on Spain's late, great Catholic scholar, Miguel de Unamuno. Yet only in the last five years has more than an inkling of Kierkegaard been...
...known tone-poems, Pohjola's Daughter and The Swan of Tuonela. This is a chance to hear two shorter masterpieces, each impressive, but in entirely different ways: The Swan being a quiet, meditative mood-piece with little excitement, and Pohjola's Daughter being a volcanic orchestration of an old Scandinavian myth...
...haired Carl Milles himself. He had come from Detroit to make a personal appearance at the biggest Carl Milles sculpture show ever held anywhere. Looking like one of his own rugged-faced Tritons, Swedish-born Sculptor Milles (amid cries of "louder") quietly addressed the crowd in his own Scandinavian brand of English, expressed pleasure at all the exhibitionism ("It is the first time an exhibit of my work shows all the steps what we have to do"), spoke feelingly of the problems of outdoor sculpture. Often, said he, when a sculptor sees his work for the first time outside...
...fountain for their Michigan Square Building in Chicago. Then Detroit's Philanthropist George Booth, who was trying to found an ideal art colony at nearby Cranbrook, invited Milles to teach sculpture there. Since then Milles has lived at Cranbrook, dividing the honors of its famous Art Academy with Scandinavian Modern Architect Eliel Saarinen. Sculptor Milles teaches, but goes on hewing and casting too. Says he, of his bold, agonized, monumental figures: "You see their faces are ugly. That is why they didn't like me in Sweden. I like salt in their faces. I do not like prettiness...
...raise sisal in the Bahamas), and the biggest feet in the Cabinet. He also had gout and bunions. Clement Attlee once said that Chamberlain's smile reminded him of the silver handles of a coffin. A kindlier woman said his eyes were "cold and smiling, like a Scandinavian river...