Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WORLD OF EVELYN WAUGH (411 pp.)-Edited by Charles J. Rolo-Little, Brown...
Aldous Huxley, 63, is now so venerable a figure of modern letters that a middle-aged critic-the Atlantic Monthly's Charles J. Rolo-owns a poodle named Aldous. Evelyn Waugh, 54, never reached the same status of a chic literary household pet. But, unlike poodles, both writers-two of the century's most gifted entertainers-are no longer quite fashionable. Both have had the premature burial of collections in their lifetime, Huxley's latest prepared by an anonymous Harper editor, Waugh's by Rolo...
Huxley and Waugh share many things apart from talent and an interest in drugs and religion (in Huxley's case mescaline and Vedanta, in Waugh's wine and Roman Catholicism). Each has a deep artistic integrity and an interest in odd characters -almost, unlike modern young men, to the exclusion of his own. If the '20s and '30s are remembered as nothing more than a dismal tract of history leading to present discontents, it will be partly because two wondrously articulate Fools were wiser than the lugubrious Lear of the tottering old order, whose motley they...
Huxley's Horrors. Each took his time and made a horror comic of it. The characters are British middle and upper class of the great inter-bellum years-but Huxley's are drawn with a Daumier-like fascination and disgust, Waugh's by the lunatic but precise line of a Ronald Searle...
...concerns for country, are assets in his short stories, but they make him an extremely limited critic. The more remote his subject is from Ireland, the worse O'Faolain's criticism becomes. He is at his best in the few pages on Joyce; but his chapter on Huxley and Waugh is mediocre, and the chapter on Hemingway is simply...