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...found his calling as a master of black comedy and satire. Other novels, among them Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust and Black Mischief, followed regularly throughout the '30s, always in Waugh's elegant, crystalline style. He traveled adventurously, a fascinated observer of the often comic clash between primitive and advanced cultures. From a newspaper assignment to cover the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, he got the material for Scoop, still a hilarious guide to the adrenaline world of journalism. Much of the novel's lunatic telegraphese was pure reportage. After the invasion, for example, newspaper offices heard...
...doing to itself and what the necessity is to torment ourselves like this, month after month." One of his top aides reported that Kissinger is feeling increasingly embattled and isolated, and is irked that the White House is giving him a minimum of support in this latest, potentially climactic clash between Congress and the Executive...
Football heroes and great football games come and go, but coach Joe Restic is always around, and always a winner. The 1975 football season appears to have boiled down to one meteoric clash again, but it might not have were it not for Restic's minor miracle-working. The game against Yale today is not the key to a successful season for Harvard, though it could go a long way toward making it a memorable...
...regime fails to prevent a clash between rival political groups, Spain's military commanders may feel compelled to step in. Although kept deliberately apolitical by Franco, the officer corps is believed to be solidly loyal to el Caudillo's plans for the succession. Unlike Portugal's officers, they have not been radicalized by exposure to Marxist rebels in a losing African colonial war. The new King, in fact, is reportedly popular with the officers...
Soldiers Field wasn't the only scene of excitement this weekend for Ivy League faithful. A pair of heavy favorites--Brown and Princeton--took it on the chin in what were supposed to be tune-up contests for their showdown clash this Saturday in New Jersey...