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That kind of plangent wistfulness is hardly confined to Mother's account of her honeymoon or Grandpa's homesickness for his youth. The tug and ache of nostalgia pull even at the hardiest of travelers. The caustic Evelyn Waugh introduces his collection of travel essays, When the Going Was Good, with a heartbroken valedictory to a vanished Golden Age of travel that is, in effect, a valentine to his own lost youth. In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore...
There are occasions, Amos admits, when the distortions of life far exceed those of art. Evelyn Waugh's scapegrace Basil Seal (Black Mischief) is based in part on an aristocrat who might have arrived from the set of early Monty Python. As a houseguest, Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Fourth Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, liked to borrow a pound from the butler and later tip him with it. The title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite...
...Evelyn Murphy, a former State Secretary of Economic affairs, and State Sen. Gerard D'Amico (D-Worcester) are the two major contenders for this nomination. They both apparently have sufficient support to gain at least the 15 percent of delegates' votes that will put their names on the September 16 primary ticket...
...Scafidi, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Trang Ba Chuong, Suzi Romanik, L. Rufino- Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); * Theodore Alban, Frances Bander, Robert Becker, Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Jonathan Elukin, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Sally George, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Judith Kales, Theresa Kelliher, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Nena Lewis, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Kevin Madden, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Alma Routsong, Lois Rubenstein, Megan Rutherford, Judy Sandra, Barbara E. Scott, Ricki Tarlow, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward...
...British legal system, he might also be described as the best lawyer ever to write for the stage (A Voyage Round My Father), screen (John and Mary) and television (Brideshead Revisited, Rumpole of the Bailey). Now Mortimer, 62, has earned another encomium: he is the only adapter of Evelyn Waugh ever to have produced a long novel about the past 40 years of life in England...