Word: kiplingisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
As for the rest of The Last Laugh, it is, unfortunately, low grade Perelman. For the last few years of his life, his writing lacked much of the snap that distinguished such earlier collections as Crazy Like a Fox and The Road to Miltdown. The writing in the last volume...
Unlike most rural discontents, Archy leaves not because of the allure of the city but because of his sense of duty to join his countrymen in Europe and fight the noble fight. Honor and pride are Archy's distinguishing characteristics--he proves as much early in the film by pitting...
After a brief tour in the Burma police (like Orwell), Saki turns up in London at 29, doing political lampoons for the Westminster Gazette with parodies of Lewis Carroll and Kipling. In The Political Jungle Book, Lord Balfour, the hapless Prime Minister, is called "Sheer Khan't." Throughout Saki...
In plan and in prospect, the marrying of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 32, to Lady Diana Spencer, 20, the well-born and distinctively dishy commoner, is a fairy tale of present pomp and past glory, a last page from the tattered book of empire with the gold leaf still...
When he spots one, his shout is not "Yoicks," but "Read Kipling"-"Read Dickens"-"Read Ibsen"-"Read Mrs. Browning." Of course, being Shavians, Tarleton and the eight other whiz-tongued characters in the play have no time to read. Wittily, polemically, almost lyrically, they talk talk talk talk talk. This...