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Good satirists get so hot under the choler that they are always in danger of breaking out in a sentimental sweat-which is why many of them cling tightly to cold ferocity and suppress the feeblest spasms of affection. Satirist Evelyn Waugh has been no exception, but he is one of the few of his kind who has found the conflict between satirical art and goodness of heart a nagging, challenging problem. His ideal is the simple, honest "Christian gentleman"; Waugh cherishes things romantic, patriotic and traditional. Moreover, he is a religious man, whose irrepressible satirical arrogance is at variance...
According to Shulman, humor must satisfy the temperament of an age. "Today," he said, "people are looking for something to cling to, a homesy-folksy humor, the endless spectacle of each other." He cited Frank Galbraith's "Cheaper by the Dozen" as typical...
...already presented a suitable proposal: extension of the time limit to eleven o'clock every Friday and Saturday night, and during the rest of the week, extensions at the Housemasters' discretion. The Council should recommend this plan again, with the hope that this year the Dean's Office will cling no longer to its unfounded misgivings...
Meteors, most astronomers think, are merely junior members of the solar system-fragments of comets or wandering bits of a blown-up planet. But a few experts still cling to the more romantic theory that some meteors hit the earth after traveling across interstellar space, perhaps for billions of years, from some other part of the Milky Way galaxy (of which the solar system is a part...
...theme of the season is back to nature. Clothes that cling are quite the thing. If nature gave you nothing to cling to, new girdles and heavy belts that push protoplasm where it belongs are also available. In a burst of remarkable reason, designers have decided to cover this nude look with coats that bellow out from the shoulder in barrel or bell forms and wander vaguely down to a faltering stop somewhere between the hip and knee. A tight skirt carries on from there, giving the overall effect of a candle being snuffed with...