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Eliot cast most of his Cats verses in the ricky-ticky septameter that served lyricists from Gilbert to Kipling to Lear. The challenge to Lloyd Webber was to compose a score that did not sound like outtakes from The Pirates of Penzance. Because of this metrical restriction, Lloyd Webber could...
The team tested a group of Ohio State University students swimming laps, while others were making noise clapping and shouting. Each noisemaker let his output drop by half when he switched from solitude to a group of four. The researchers theorize that workers do poorly in a group because they...
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