Word: rudyard
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Written by Randell Thompson '20, Director of the Division of Music at the University of Virginia, "Solomon and Balkis" is the product of a commission from the League of Composers and CBS to write an opera suitable for performance in colleges and conservatories. The libretto is based on Rudyard Kipling's Just-So story "The Butterfly That Stamped...
Thus, according to Rudyard Kipling, sang the great sleek Callorhinus alascanus, the fur seal, of his summer home in the Bering Sea, the barren volcanic islands of the Pribilof Archipelago. To these islands each May the males come first, from their winter haunts in the north Pacific-huge, scarred 600-lb. bulls, full-coated three-year-old "bachelors." By the time the females arrive from the south with their pups, weeks later, the bulls have battled themselves ragged and bloody fighting for places to set up their harems on the rocky ledges of the rookery. Each bull takes some...
...Imperialism Out. Said Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.: "No one wants an 'American Empire' with an American Rudyard Kipling to sing the glories of the White Man's burden. . . . The American genius is the genius of a commonwealth and not of an Imperial system...
...Rudyard Kipling, as a child, under a tyrant aunt, suffered six years of a similar hell; but his wound distorted rather than strengthened his bow. As he grew older, he transposed the objects of his hatred and his fear; developed a weakling's abject worship of authority, and became the celebrant of class against mass, of system against the individual, of the animal, even of the machine, against the human. Wilson brilliantly points out the shifts and tightenings of these allegiances as they develop in Kipling's stories. He also points out that though Kipling is now neglected...
...stiff literary standards, England's Poet Laureate is an easy man to underestimate. But the very qualities that make his work minor (and made him Laureate) -simplicity, traditionalism and sentimentality-are also his great charm. Hardly less than Rudyard Kipling, he is a workingman's poet. The same qualities make In the Mill, the story of the days when he was an intelligent young workingman, one of the most engaging of his books...