Word: kiplingisms
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As in few other countries, railways in India provide the vital arteries of commerce, superseding airplanes, pipelines and highways. Masses of passengers stuffed into third-class coaches are as much a part of the Indian scene today as they were in Kipling's raj. But even more than carrying...
NICOL WILLIAMSON'S LATE SHOW. An afterhours gig with the matchless Scot singing the blues and lighting up the night with Eliot, Kipling and Beckett.
This classic imperialism evokes images of British freebooters robbing southern Africa of gold and diamonds, of French colonialists shipping Vietnamese peasants to rubber plantations, taking away their names and assigning them numbers, of Chinese coolies building railroads and Indians pulling rickshaws in Bombay, of Rudyard Kipling, and of sugar plantations...
He claims to be a stand-up comedian of sorts, and he is a former rock musician. He is also living proof of the proposition that though Old Fugs never die, maybe they ought to. Kupferberg gave us a bad dose of anti-war humor dating back not just to...
Quick to hop on the Watergate wagon, Columbia Records corralled the Senate select committee chairman to make a record for them called Senator Sam at Home. Result: a coup running over with homilies. Bloviating through 77 years of memories, Sam Ervin laces his bourbon with saccharin and recites his favorite...