Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little read in the U.S., where his The Acceptance World (TIME, Feb. 20. 1956) sold only 2,000 copies, Novelist Powell (rhymes with Lowell) is highly regarded in his native Britain. Evelyn Waugh calls The Music of Time more realistic than Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and much funnier. Powell's thesis is that blood is thicker than almost anything; his social unit is the family, not the individual. Says his fictional spokesman: "There is something overpowering, even a trifle sinister about very large families, the individual members of which often possess in excess the characteristics commonly...
Novelist Powell, who was at Eton with Henry Green and George Orwell, at Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, proves that he is not out of place in such company. He is by any standard an important comic if not satiric novelist. Unfortunately infatuated with detail, Powell sometimes seems to obey a new novelist's commandment to the effect that he shall not describe a character unless he describes his neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his ass and anything that is his neighbor's. But through such means, Powell tells a story of the between...
...memory of the late scholar and translator Monsignor Ronald Knox, for 13 years Oxford's wise, witty Roman Catholic chaplain, a group of old Oxonians, including Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Philosopher-Critic C. S. Lewis, will set up a grant for Biblical or classical studies at the school longest associated with his name, Trinity College...
...getting answers about Central America's economic problems, and he took along key men to help him with the job. With him were Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for inter-American Affairs; Tom B. Coughran, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh; and Development Loan Fund Manager Dempster Mclntosh. Along to handle hostess duties was Milton's daughter Ruth...
...Nicosia hospital was fledgling writer and Royal Horse Guards Subaltern Auberon Alexander Waugh, 18, eldest son of pawky Satirist Evelyn Waugh (who like son served with the famed "Blues," during World War II), after being wounded in a shooting accident following antiriot operations in troubled Cyprus...