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His vitality belies a long career whose roots are with Edgar Allen Poe and Rudyard Kipling, whose growth shows the influence of John Crowe Ransom and T.S. Eliot and whose maturity, in turn, affected Theodore Roethke and John Berryman. It is somehow easier to believe Tate has had three children...
Suzannah's Steel. Born in 1828 in a tiny Norwegian lumber town, he was seven when his well-to-do father's finances collapsed. About the same time, Henrik became convinced (incorrectly, his biographer suspects) that he was illegitimate. He writhed under this double disgrace, and when he...
Capra's early life does sound like one of his scenarios. An immigrant Sicilian, one of seven kids, he has to take almost as many jobs as courses to get himself through school. His first movie work, directing a one-reel rendition of a Kipling poem, is a chance...
Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst. -Rudyard Kipling, Mandalay
This week, as all of India goes to the polls to elect a new Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament), 18 parties in West Bengal are also contesting 280 seats in the state legislature. Political infighting has reached a murderous frenzy, especially in Calcutta. In "the packed and pestilential town...