Word: auberon
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...inhabitants of this Country," wrote William Dampier, the English sea dog who in 1688 became the first Englishman to record his impressions of Australia, "are the miserablest people in the World . . . Setting aside their humane shape, they differ but little from Brutes." Early this year, English journalist Auberon Waugh, who seems to have inherited his father Evelyn's racism if not his genius, visited Sydney for the Australian bicentennial. "They had no form of civil society at all, beyond whatever social organization may be observed in a swarm of locusts," he wrote of the Aborigines. Their art "must be judged...
...Auberon Waugh...
Putting the names Brideshead and Waugh on the same dust jacket may be inspired marketing. But Auberon is Evelyn's son, and this book has nothing to do with nostalgic memories of aristocrats toting Teddy bears. Brideshead Benighted offers, instead, roughly a decade's worth of the author's columns for the Spectator, a British weekly magazine. Waugh does not admire most of his countrymen, including union leaders ("oafs") and contemporary youth ("a lost generation without even the resources to amuse themselves"). He also takes potshots at the Archbishop of Canterbury, Princess Anne and a long line of politicians. Readers...
That Charles Ryder's Schooldays fell out in time for the Brideshead renaissance is a coincidence wrapped in a contract inside an irony. The author's son Auberon acknowledges that the work is not worth "splashing around." Yet, he adds, "that's why we let the TLS have it." The journal then promotes this bottom-drawer curiosity as a "scoop," which is the title of Evelyn Waugh's classic satire on the press...
First copies of the Dial, a slick new monthly about television, were winning rave reviews from charter subscribers this month. Billed as a program guide to public television, the Dial also features articles by first-class writers: Wilfrid Sheed on sports, Auberon Waugh on Alec Guinness, Stanley Kauffmann on acting. But the magazine was unexpectedly panned by the House of Representatives, then by the U.S. Postal Service. Reason: the Dial- which will be sent to 650,000 PBS-TV supporters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as part of their $25-minimum contribution-is bursting with...