Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories of Henry James as Toby might have spoken of Marlborough. His books seemed [to us] like medals achieved, perhaps, in the Crimea; and we read Auden, Kafka, Evelyn Waugh...
...according to Novelist Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited, the smart Oxford undergraduate ate plovers' eggs, read T. S. Eliot, drove a Morris-Cowley two-seater, might even carry a pet Teddy bear around with...
...must have read: Evelyn Waugh, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, Nancy Mitford. No one should be caught reading: Beverly Nichols, Elizabeth Bowen...
...Little, Brown & Co., fussy little Novelist Evelyn Waugh graciously supplied a blurb for his upcoming historical novel, Helena, due in October: "Technically this is the most ambitious work of a writer who is devoted to the niceties of his trade...
...bequest from the late great Photographer and Art Promoter Alfred Stieglitz helped bring the Met's collection up to date, and the museum had bought 50-odd paintings in two years to fill some of the remaining gaps. Among its selections were a soapy surfscape by Frederick Waugh, a dusty studio composition by Robert Brackman, and a foggy abstraction by Theodores Stamos. The conservative Met had clearly done its backbending best to give contemporary art a fair, inclusive showing...