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Rudyard Kipling expressed an even more condemnatory attitude towards the interviewer. Read the line in the passage: 'His wife, Caroline, writes in her diary for ...' -

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Rudyard Kipling expressed an even more condemnatory attitude towards the interviewer. His wife, Caroline, writes in her diary for 14 October 1892 that their day was 'wrecked by two reporters from Boston'. She reports her husband as saying to the reporters, ''Why do I refuse to be interviewed? Because it is immoral! It is a crime, just as much of a crime as an offence against my person, as an assault, and just as much merits punishment. It is cowardly and vile. No respectable man would ask it, much less give it," Yet Kipling had Wmself perpetrated such an 'assault' on Mark Twain only a few years before. H. G. Wells in an interview in 1894 referred to 'the interviewing ordeal', but was a fairly frequent interviewee and forty years later found himself interviewing Joseph Stalin. Saul Bellow, who has consented to be interviewed on several occasions, nevertheless once described interviews as being like thumbprints on his windpipe.

Read the line in the passage: 'His wife, Caroline, writes in her diary for ...' What is the meaning of the phrase: 'wrecked by two reporters'.

Options

  • Broken down by two reporters.

  • Spoilt by two reporters.

  • Splinted by two reporters.

  • Turned down by two reporters.

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Solution

Spoilt by two reporters.

Explanation:

The word 'wrecked' implies 'destructed.' Because it is related to the word 'day,' the meaning in context will be spoiled.

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