Word: rudyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haze of Heat. The land is vast and cruel, running some 2,000 miles from the icy peaks of the Himalayas, in the heart of central Asia, down to the steaming jungles of Cape Comorin, on the Indian Ocean. In summer, wrote Rudyard Kipling, there is "neither sky, sun, nor horizon. Nothing but a brown-purple haze of heat. It is as though the earth were dying of apoplexy." During this furnace season, millions of Indian villagers lie gasping in their mud huts; wells dry up and fields blow away. When the monsoon rains come in the fall, the torrential...
Courtney's Harvard career has left a residue of memories among his contemporaries. His classmate Rudyard Ginsberg remarked that "Courtney was by far the most stupid graduate I knew" and further conjectured that "there were few less intelligent among those who failed." That Courtney ever arrived at Harvard has remained a source of awe and wonder. His parents deny that he was an imposter; the Admissions Committee rejects the rumor that a letter of acceptance was sent him by mistake. The Deans in general refuse to be approached on "the Peabody matter...
More than half a century ago Rudyard Kipling advised the world to walk wide of the Widow at Windsor (for '"alf o' creation she owns"). Now British Satirist Angus Wilson offers a look at the other side of the Victorian coin-a blowsy Widow Britannia, landed tails down on the wet asphalt of the Welfare State...
...Rudyard Kipling...
...Dickens'-still less be urged to do so by an academic history? The fact is that though no two "Janeites" can ever agree on what words to use in venerating the author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfield Park, none doubt that worship is indicated. Even rugged Rudyard Kipling imagined her being greeted in paradise by Fielding, Smollett, Cervantes and Shakespeare...