Word: kubla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yangtze, Go Home. From Portland, Ore., the Kubla Khan Food Co. ships frozen chow mein, chop suey and fried rice to Fitzpatrick's Ltd. of Singapore...
Crushed by a Mountain. Such indifference was of no avail when the mighty Mongol hordes, headed by Kubla Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, arrived at the gates of fragrant Hangchou. Before his fierce tribesmen the southern capital fell-crushed, one Chinese historian wrote, as "the Sacred Mountain T'ai would crush an egg." What followed was a galling 100-year reign by the Mongol foreigners...
...Kubla Khan ruled his far-flung empire from Korea to Hungary, using a pony express of 200,000 horses to maintain rapid communication, from his palace in Peking (which Marco Polo described with its "walls covered with gold and silver") or his pleasure-domed summer palace, with its 16-square-mile enclosed park at Shangtu (the Xanadu of Coleridge's famed verses). But because the Mongol Khans decreed that the elite Confucian scholars -who, under the Sung Dynasty, had ranked just below royalty-should be reduced to a category one degree above beggars, few Chinese scholars showed...
...walk and talk with great men was as much an everyday thing to Lamb as rubbing shoulders with the demons of insanity. When Samuel Taylor Coleridge had written "what he calls a vision, Kubla Khan," it was to Lamb that he read this great poem aloud-"so enchantingly that it brings heaven into my parlor while he sings or says it." William Hazlitt, angriest of English essayists ("He avows that not only does he not pity sick people, but he hates them"), was another devoted friend. Percy Bysshe Shelley makes a brief appearance ("His voice was the most obnoxious squeak...
Griffes: Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Mercury). Gifted U.S. Composer Charles T. Griffes (1884-1920) here gets the first LP of his biggest orchestral effusion. Like his better-known White Peacock (also on this record), it proves him to be the American Delius; the style falls somewhere between French impressionism and German tone poems...