Word: galsworthian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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