Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When you mention Vigeland to somebody in Oslo, his face brightens quickly and he asks: "What do you think of him?" Nobody in Norway, as far as I can tell, knows exactly what to think. But when outlanders like British Novelist Evelyn Waugh attack their favorite son, Norwegians are shocked and depressed. "The most heathen thing I have seen in Europe," Waugh recently told an interviewer. "A subhuman zoo in bronze and granite . . . more terrible than the ruins of Hiroshima...
Ordinarily I'm a devotee of both Wolcott Gibbs and Evelyn Waugh. So when I read Gibbs' delighted review of Waugh's "The Loved One" in the New Yorker last summer, I got hold of the book, clapped my hands for joy, and sat down for a good time. Now usually Waugh is excruciating and malevolent and vastly inventive. But not in "The Loved One." It is chiefly a one-joke book, and the joke isn't very good--it's about funeral parlor techniques--nor is its effect savage. So practically nothing of Waugh is there--little malevolence, less...
...Lehman, 63, banker and nephew of New York's onetime Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Ann Roche Marshall, 45, fire battalion chief's daughter and Lehman's longtime friend; each for the second time; in Manhattan, one day after his divorce (after 36 years) from Evelyn Schiffer Lehman, to whom he paid a reported $3,500,000 settlement...
...Book Service Department, bought better than 6,000 books last year for their own use. As of last week, BSD reports, TIME'S bestseller list is headed by the following four books: Churchill's Memoirs, The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer...
...writes like a movie camera. Says Evelyn Waugh, of his books: "It is as though, out of an infinite length of film, sequences had been cut . . . The writer has become director and producer. Indeed, the affinity to the film is everywhere apparent." Several of his books (e.g., The Ministry of Fear, Brighton Rock) have been transmogrified into movies-and one (The Power and the Glory) bowdlerized into Beauty, Hollywood style (as The Fugitive...