Word: evelyne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Evelyn Waugh, 62, Britain's Edwardian gentleman at pen points with the 20th century; of a heart attack; in Somerset, England (see page...
...like a scene from an early novel by Evelyn Waugh. An intellectual dandy, hardly a year out of Oxford and already weary of the world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...
Poems & Twenty-Five Poems. Paul Valery, Charmes & La Jeune Parque. Arthur Waley, 770 Chinese Poems. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts. William Carlos Williams, Paterson. Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse...
...mean that homosexuals do not and cannot talk seriously; but there is often a subtle sea change in the conversation: sex (unspoken) pervades the atmosphere. Among other matters, this raises the question of whether there is such a thing as a discernible homosexual type. Some authorities, notably Research Psychologist Evelyn Hooker of U.C.L.A., deny it-against what seems to be the opinion of most psychiatrists. The late Dr. Edmund Bergler found certain traits present in all homosexuals, including inner depression and guilt, irrational jealousy and a megalomaniac conviction that homosexual trends are universal. Though Bergler conceded that homosexuals...
Even if it's way overdone in places, the screenplay of Evelyn Waugh's takeoff on California culture often hits where it hurts. Whispering Glades, the super cemetery for people, and The Happy Hunting Ground, its animal counterpart, are classics. Candy-lovers will recognize Terry Southern's hand immediately. Jonathan Winters is great as The Blessed Reverend Glenworthy and his poor brother Harry, cemetery keepers both; he's the ne-ne-na-na-no-nu baby Frickett grown...