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...plane went up, R. F. Cullman piloting. It roared, it swooped. It turned loops, it careened. It slipped sideways, it banked, it circled. Then it returned to steady earth. The 10-year-old boy was unbound and lifted out, speechless and faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mute Terror | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make up "The Ring", for which as in his other operas he himself wrote the librette, he sets forth, for example, his idea of an idyllic state of society not dissimilar to that of Shelley's "Promethens Unbound". In "Tristan" he brings his reading of Schoppenhauer to its logical and extreme conclusion. All in all, the figure of Wagner is gigantic not only in music, where he is supreme, but also in literature where he looms large in the field of the drama being without much doubt the greatest German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Thus Sheftey, in "Prometheus Unbound" describes the animals of the past, which will be the subjects of Professor Parker's less poetical but more scientific lecture this morning at 10 o'clock in the Geological Lecture Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

...they flogged him in turn with the knotted ropes. . . bastinadoed his feet until he swooned . . . unbound him and left him lying on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Abbe Flogged | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...Prometheus Unbound. Prometheus, legendary hero, brought fire to mortals and as punishment was chained to Mount Caucasus by Zeus, where an eagle by day devoured his liver, which grew again during the night. Aeschylus, Greek tragic poet, wrote two dramas: 1) Prometheus Bound, telling this story, and 2) Prometheus Unbound, telling of the deliverance of the hero by Hercules after a reconciliation of the former with Zeus. Shelley, in his poem, changes the plot somewhat- makes Prometheus an even more adamantine hero who refuses to bow to Zeus, overthrows him, liberates mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Prometheus Unbound | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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