Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waugh fortified himself against his times with a moat of disdain, crenelated views and a castle keep of private devotions. He was raised in the middle-class London suburb of Golders Green, son of a modest publisher. At Oxford in the '20s he associated with the aesthetes, young men he later termed "mad, bad and dangerous to know." He graduated far from the top of his class, then taught school. Evelyn's experiences left him well stocked for his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928): "I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That...
...wanderings produced the raw material for most of his fiction. There are striking similarities between the African backgrounds in Black Mischief and Scoop and descriptions in his travel books. Military service in Britain, Crete and Yugoslavia during World War II supplied incidents for Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen and The End of the Battle. In 1965, the year before he died, Waugh published an edited version of the trilogy under the single title Sword of Honour. It is a masterpiece in which the author fully joined the two sides of his nature: the detached satirist and the chivalrous, disillusioned...
...Harvard men's hoop team picked up its fourth Ivy League victory and gained a share of second place as it took charge of the game early and rolled over Brown, 76-57, in Saturday night's contest...
...Quaker line-up followed Edwards' example by taking five of the remaining eight matches. Only number four player George Bell and seventh and eight men John Fishwick and John Heller managed victories for the Crimson...
...University of Vermont men's ski team continued its tradition as ungracious guests by capturing its fifth consecutive Dartmouth Winter Carnival this weekend, piling up 319 points and leaving the Harvard squad dead last with 67 points...