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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...
...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...
Robert S. Schwarz '55 will lead the cast in the central role of Marco, with Pippa Scott '56 playing opposite him as the Princess Kukachin. Thomas V. Gaydos '54, who played Thomas Becket in the HDC's winter production of "Murder in the Cathedral," is cast as the Emperor Kubla Kaan. Robert J. Beatey '55 will appear as the sage...
...acre San Simeon, where he rode with his father as a boy, Hearst decreed stately pleasure domes that would have awed Kubla Khan. He equipped the place with everything from giraffes to Roman baths, spent millions to give its vistas a Maxfield Parrish unreality-and insisted on paper napkins and ketchup bottles at the long refectory table because San Simeon was still "the ranch...