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-Rudyard Kipling, The Explorer
This version of a poem by Rudyard Kipling is much quoted in Viet Nam by Americans who are desperately trying to hustle Premier Nguyen Khanh's regime into stepped-up action against the ever more aggressive Red guerrillas. The latest factor that hampers U.S. efforts is that old Asian...
∙WORSHIP. Almost certain to be accepted is a proposed new order of worship that will bring a welcome measure of austere dignity to Methodism's sometimes freewheeling Sunday mornings. In language and spirit, the revised services resemble those contained in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, which Methodism...
With this epigram from the unfashionable poet Rudyard Kipling carved in its marble-slathered lobby, the U.S.'s newest museum throws down an elegant gauntlet at the feet of all that has been fashionable in recent art. The challenger is A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, 52, who considers abstract...
Henry Adams described the dynamo as modern man's equivalent of the medieval Virgin, and Rudyard Kipling celebrated its strength in Song of the Dynamo. Prime Minister Nehru has urged his countrymen to make pilgrimages to their "new temples": the dams and power plants rising across the face of...