Word: kiplinger
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East is east and west is west, as Kipling knew, but in Pennsylvania the twain meet regularly, in bitter contests for public office between politicians from Philadelphia and those from the Pittsburgh area. This year the prize is the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Richard Schweiker. The contestants...
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear Kipling, Auden & Co., Randall Jarrell ∙Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich∙Lyndon, Merle Miller Nature and Culture, Barbara Novak
¶China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ¶ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ¶ Kipling, Auden & Co., Randall Jarrell ¶ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich Lyndon, Merle Miller ¶ Nature and Culture, Barbara ¶ Novak Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook
In a series of essays on Kipling, Jarrell echoed Mark Twain's remark that "it isn't what they don't know that hurts people, it's what they do know that isn't so." He urged readers to forget what they thought they knew...
At his death he left two collections of his essays and reviews, Poetry and the Age and A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. In 1969 The Third Book of Criticism was published posthumously. Most of his last remaining pieces are now gathered in Kipling, Auden & Co. The result, inevitably, is...