Word: evelyn
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...Evelyn Waugh fortified himself against his times with a moat of disdain, crenelated views and a castle keep of private devotions. He was raised in the middle-class London suburb of Golders Green, son of a modest publisher. At Oxford in the '20s he associated with the aesthetes, young men he later termed "mad, bad and dangerous to know." He graduated far from the top of his class, then taught school. Evelyn's experiences left him well stocked for his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928): "I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That...
Other fellows, enthusiastic about their own work in politics, said they are very anxious to transmit their excitement to students. "I want to convey the opportunities in state government, and how exciting it can be," Evelyn F. Murphy, former secretary of Environmental Affairs for the state of Massachusetts, said yesterday...
...confidence, the centers offer psychological support. The small staffs, usually women who have been through the experience themselves ("Real experts, not book experts," says Laurie Shields), have developed individualized programs that use many of the techniques of crisis intervention, assertiveness training, consciousness raising. In Grand Island, Neb., for example, Evelyn Spiehs, 49, widowed last spring, attends a weekly rap session with six other women, goes to larger career-guidance workshops and receives legal counseling. "It felt good to know they understood," she says, "and didn't just feel sorry for me. I wouldn't have been able...
...Cecil (Harrison) is an English novelist and knight who lives in autumnal bachelor ease at his country house with the aid of a loyal valet, Hawkins (George Rose), who is not above discreetly reproving his master or sampling his port. Into this Eve-less Eden strolls the recently widowed Evelyn (Colbert). It's not the first time. Fifty years before, the same majestic tree that spans the garden had seemed the arbor of true love to Evelyn and Cecil, but he lost her to a stuffy rival. He tries to kindle the sere and yellow leaves of that romance...
...Guyana Massacre and The Suicide Cult are solid documentaries. "It isn't War and Peace," admits Harwood, co-author of the Berkley book. Krause and his co-authors offer more sophisticated speculation about the psychological motives for Jonestown. One of the chapters is entitled "Scoop," a reference to Evelyn Waugh's satiric novel about journalists who cover an elusive crisis in a backward country. "A friend told me I would never write a book without a gun to my head," said Krause. Perhaps more editors and publishers should arm themselves...