Word: galsworthian
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...somewhat Galsworthian catastrophe forces George to the first commitment of his life. His cheerful young niece is got with child by, of all things, a plumber's helper. He decides he must help her. He concludes that the only way is to kill himself so that the girl will get his small nugget of otherwise untouchable capital. But he drinks too much and his ten-gin resolve to die dissolves into a sentimental 20-gin binge...
Years loses some of its momentum when it reaches the postwar era-presumably because Waugh's life also lost a good deal of its glamour. He drifted into and out of an unsuccessful marriage, took a job in publishing, and kept turning out studiously Galsworthian novels. By the early '30s, Evelyn had become by far the more famous of the two writing Waughs. Alec confesses that he has not seen Evelyn "twenty times in the last twenty years," and he has little to say of his brother beyond the fact that he regards him as "incomparably the finest...
...Galsworthian technique-thorough rubber-necking at upper-middle-class lives -is at best photographic, kaleidoscopic; at worst trite, futile, obvious. One of Alec Waugh's characters testifies against the author on page 263 (not yet the end): "Her marriage had become like a novel on whose two hundredth page the reader, foreseeing the climax, can only remain inquisitive as to the actual means by which the ultimate unravelling is to be achieved...
...accompaniment of a wedding march, prepare to practice in Rome what they have preached in London. The arch-fanatic is Richard Bird, three years ago imported from England to play The Babe in Havoc. Later he supplied a brilliant Poet MarChbanks in Shaw's Candida. The faintly Galsworthian throes of this London hit give him opportunity to squirm and ogle with an excess of youth every time he sits down in a chair. The most finished performance is supplied by Ann Andrews, brought surprisingly into the second act to give the younger female fanatics the benefit of her life...
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