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... cliché of manhood . It is not accidental that this cliché is a legacy of Kipling . Scobie is one of Kipling's men , Wilson one of his boys , as those two were so often contrasted in the Indian stories . This is no accident , because so ...
... cliché of manhood . It is not accidental that this cliché is a legacy of Kipling . Scobie is one of Kipling's men , Wilson one of his boys , as those two were so often contrasted in the Indian stories . This is no accident , because so ...
Page 215
... cliché I mean primarily a standardized opinion , a judgment expressed in a phrase or sentence so standardized as to ... clichés , by becoming the object of a standard enthu- siasm . When this happens a sensitive person must keep silent ...
... cliché I mean primarily a standardized opinion , a judgment expressed in a phrase or sentence so standardized as to ... clichés , by becoming the object of a standard enthu- siasm . When this happens a sensitive person must keep silent ...
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... cliché , psychologically as well as by situation , and to deny that was in effect to lie . And that seems to be typical of the failure of the English intellectual response to Kipling : because he dealt in cliché , they thought they ...
... cliché , psychologically as well as by situation , and to deny that was in effect to lie . And that seems to be typical of the failure of the English intellectual response to Kipling : because he dealt in cliché , they thought they ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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