Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price, and within the zones the prices vary according to their proximity to the Work of Art . . There is Lovers' Nest, zoned about a very, very beautiful marble replica of Rodin's famous statue, The Kiss. We have double plots there at $750 the pair." -Evelyn Waugh, in The Loved...
...Faulkner on Waugh on Hemingway (Faulkner upheld Waugh's criticism of the critics of Hemingway's new novel, Across the River and into the Trees) in TIME Letters...
...logic, I have nothing to stand on while I throw such a spitball. Would a few well-placed spitballs have saved Hemingway from the pitfall of delusion wherein he has knocked out Flaubert and others? If Hemingway does not need defending, as Mr. Faulkner asserts, why did Mr. Waugh and Mr. Faulkner bother? Is it that they are trusting to be his seconds when he gets into the ring with Shakespeare...
...London Daily Express wondered whether authors like to reread their own books, asked a few, found Evelyn Wauqh an ardent admirer of Waugh, especially his latest novel Helena, which he had read "20 times" since its publication...
...Evelyn Waugh is one of the finest prose stylists writing today. He is a master stery-teller--"Helena" does not lag, even without a real plot. He has a delicate touch in recording the Inanities (and worse) of civilization. But "Helena" lacks the religiousness of a religious story, and the bite of a proper satire. What remains is mere teeth...