Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retirement benefits normally awarded to one full-time faculty member. There are now some 50 shared appointments across the nation, mostly at small liberal arts colleges that are eager to acquire two part-time teachers, often with two separate areas of specialization, for the price of one. Says Evelyn Pluhar, who shares a philosophy appointment with her husband Werner at Grinnell College in Iowa: "Together we offer a wider variety of expertise...
NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr The Last Cowboy, Jane Kramer Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, Franz Kafka
NONFICTION: Charles Dickens. Edgar Johnson ∙ Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙ The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙ Dispatches, Michael Herr On Photography, Susan Sontag
With hardly a falter, Elizabeth transformed herself from acolyte into doyenne. Neither rich nor silly enough to qualify as one of Evelyn Waugh's bright young things, she became a hostess whom congenital partygoers tried to please. When she inherited Bowen's Court, friends and supplicants trooped obediently to Ireland, where they endured without electricity or bathrooms. Elizabeth admitted that "the upstairs rooms are still rather Chas. Addams-ish-I often remind myself of his hostess showing in a guest: 'This is your room . . . If you want anything, just scream." She outlived her house. It was sold...
...Bowra was already a celebrated talent-spotter and host; among those who were just finishing their undergraduate careers in the mid-1920s, and who came and went within his circle, were Rex Warner, Cecil Day Lewis, Brian Howard, Cyril Connolly, Kenneth Clark, Henry Yorke (Henry Green), John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, John Sparrow, Isaiah Berlin, AJ. Ayer . . . There were giants in the earth in those days, but if in those days they were giants it was still within the context of their own circle; just a very talented group of young...