Word: brideshead
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...Brideshead Revisited has become one of the inescapable cultural objects of our - comparatively - recent times. Many otherwise sober critics and literary scholars regard the novel as Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece. I've always disagreed. I think his Sword of Honor trilogy is his great work - infinitely sadder and wiser - though for fall-about merriment it's hard to beat Scoop...
...accept that Blair's faith is genuine or that it might provide genuine insights into our global condition. His religiosity was "incomprehensible," one well-known intellectual sniffed recently; I have heard Blair's recent conversion to Catholicism, a faith that has long had a following among posh Brits (think Brideshead Revisited), explained on the grounds of "snob appeal...
It’s hard to be a wine aficionado in college. Whenever I stare into a plastic cup full of God-knows-what at a Harvard party, I always think of that scene from Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited” where an intoxicated Oxford student vomits on another, and one of the drunkard’s friends explains to the vomitee: “The wines were too various….It was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was mixture...
That anyone would decide to remake Lassie is in itself not so odd. Far worse properties have been rehashed, and at least director Charles Sturridge (Brideshead Revisited, Shackleton) will be classing up the old dog a bit, not only by casting O'Toole, Samantha Morton and Peter Dinklage in major roles but also by taking the story back to its pre--Timmy's-trapped-in-a-well roots. "I never saw the TV show, and I can't recall any of the films," says Sturridge, who hopes to have his movie ready for a Christmas release. "But the original novel...
...comic novelist, whose richly woven 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the genteel manners and morals of Britain's upper-middle class from World War I to the 1970s; in Frome, England. One of Britain's 20th century greats, Powell was the last of the Brideshead generation of writers that included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and George Orwell...