The Female of the Species (poem) says Kipling, has the greater determination - the greater courage and single-mindedness in the pursuit of the important in life. "The Female of the Species" and its refrain have been used as a catchphrase in other works. In 1928 the Bulldog Drummond story "The Female of the Species" may have lifted the title. This story was adapted as the 1967 European spy movie "Deadlier Than the Male". Scott Walker of The Walker Brothers wrote and performed the accompanying musical theme and scored a minor hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1966. In 1996 the English pop group Space released
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (, "And longer than a century lasts a day"), originally published in Russian in the "Novy Mir" literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. In an introduction written in 1990, during "perestroika", the author wrote that the original title was "The Hoop" ("Обруч"), which was rejected by censors. The title "The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years", taken from the poem "Unique Days" ("единственные дни") by Boris Pasternak, used for the magazine version ("Novy Mir", #11,