The Hollywood blacklist - Dan Georgakas
A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s and 1950s.
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A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s and 1950s.
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From the NS archive: Rudyard Kipling 25 January 1936: The writer of empire in changing times. In this piece, written a week after the death of Rudyard Kipling, Rebecca West, one of the magazine’s most incisive critics, took a hard look at the great fabulist and poet’s career. “Some of his work was gold; and the rest was faery gold,” she writes. Kim was a great work but by no means all his novels succeeded: “… all his life long Kipling was a better poet than he was a prose writer, though an unequal one”. The reason for Kipling’s fame was that his work was “superbly relevant ...
Corbella: How Rudyard Kipling wrote his way into lore of Canadian engineers Licia Corbella © Provided by Calgary Herald Dan Levert, professional engineer and author of On Cold Iron poses for a photo with a framed copy of the Last Saturday — May 1, 2021 — my husband Stephen and I watched a uniquely Canadian ceremony online, written by famed author Rudyard Kipling nearly one century ago, called the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. Our 23-year-old son, Tyrone — who turns 24 tomorrow — had ...