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When a man has been a state legislator at 22, a judge at 24, a multi-millionaire at 35 and mayor of a metropolis at 41, what else is there left for him at 53 but to build a suitable monument to himself? For Houston's Kubla Khan, Roy ("Giltfinger") Hofheinz, it obviously had to be a pleasure dome on the order of the Great Pyramid or the Colossus of Rhodes. To Builder Hofheinz, Houston's new, $31.6 million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When...
...Xanadu did Kubla Khan"-At his best, Updike is able to slip unobtrusively out of light verse into something more barbed. The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells him that, except for the elephant and the giraffe, man holds his heart higher above the ground than any other animal...
...Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) wrote only a handful of works in his 36 years, but at the time of his death, shortly after the Boston Symphony gave the premiere of his Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, he was already regarded as a daring and promising talent. A teacher all his life (at New York's Hackley School for boys'), he began composing under French impressionist influence, became fascinated by Javanese music, and incorporated the Oriental influence in such five-and six-notescale works as In a Myrtle Shade and Wai Kiki. His talent, as shown in recordings...
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...
...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...