Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ISLAND IN THE SUN (538 pp.)-Alec Waugh- Farrar, Strous & Cudahy...
Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh, a satire on Englishmen in World War II, was very funny when it roasted spivs and fake heroes, but Tory Waugh was really a sad man when he wrote this fine book. It was about the impulses that make men rise to moral bigness, the disillusionment which comes in the discovery that sacrifices cannot do much to change other humans' natures. It was almost a dirge on the softening of England's national character...
Prochnow, who succeeds Samuel Waugh (now president of the Export-Import Bank), will help handle foreign aid, trade and tariff negotiations, and programs to stimulate overseas investments. He got off to a flying start: while his nomination was in the works, he left with Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr. for a flying tour of trouble spots in the Far East. By the time his appointment was duly approved and signed by the President, convalescing in Denver, Prochnow was in Tokyo talking with Japan's top officials...
British Novelist Alec Waugh, after writing for years in the shadow of his younger brother Evelyn, at last tasted fame and fortune. His new novel, Island in the Sun, to be published in January, has made an across-the-board clean sweep of U.S. literary jackpots: 1) the Ladies' Home Journal is serializing it; 2) the Literary Guild has chosen it; 3) the Reader's Digest Book Club will digest it; and 20th Century-Fox will film...
Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh. The deft and relentless British satirist writes his second fine war novel around the exploits and disillusionments of Guy Crouchback, commando officer and "Christian gentleman" (TIME, July...