Word: kubla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
...words; we can smile tolerantly when he tells us that Edmund Burke was a Democrat and "A Vindication of Natural Society" the most sincere expression of his political philosophy; we can, with an effort, keep our gorge down when he says he can never forget a certain line in "Kubla Khan" and proceeds to mangle its beauty by misquotation. But when, after rising in a valiant crescendo of commonplace through pages and pages of the quintessential trite, he comes forth with the astounding conclusion that "Literature is Life," we can only throw down the book and gasp...
...Yorkers with catholic tastes in music who call at the Mayfair Yacht Club after the opera, Dwight Fiske has a peculiarly disdainful opus called "The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Kahn," in which Manhattan's most aristocratic esthetes are languidly identified with fish and weeds...