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...down to their knees, but they kept going. When they were finished there was a tremendous sense of exhilaration. It was one of those collective moments when you realize that the show is going to be terrific, that the audience is going to scream." Says Nunn: "It was like Sebastian Coe going for the world record. At the end we all had tears in our eyes...
...carries the previously unpublished 12,500 words that Waugh intended as the opening to a Brideshead sequel. The book, begun in 1945, the same year that Brideshead appeared, was to have been a flashback to Charles Ryder's life before he went up to Oxford and met Sebastian Flyte. But the one chapter, titled "Ryder by Gas-Light," is all he wrote. Sissons believes that the author decided to abandon the project after discussions with Peters, the late founder of the agency and one of Waugh's close friends...
...Proctoring means keeping an open mind" also kept popping up at the orientation sessions, but as the hordes march back from their first encounter with Sebastian Sandwiches at the Union, the caste lines are already becoming clear. A quick primer on how the nation's eleventh grade elite arranges itself...
...beginning, Charles' enchantment with Sebastian and the Marchmains' way of life is infectious, and the first several hours of Brideshead are a glorious feast-even better, no doubt, than those served up in Sebastian's rooms at Christ Church college. The acting is scrupulous. Gielgud's scenes with Irons in the Ryder dining room in London are small comic masterpieces of timing and nuance. Olivier's grand scenes come at the end, when Lord Marchmain comes home to die at Brideshead...
...trouble, for which Waugh is really responsible, comes after Sebastian takes up a drunkard's residence in the remoteness of North Africa. When he leaves-for the last several hours, he is never seen-he takes with him the story's focal point and vitality. Like many narrators, Charles is a reactor, someone who responds to people more interesting than himself. When he is forced to stand in the spotlight, he does not know what to do, and therefore does nothing...