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Much of the remaining story reads like an Evelyn Waugh comedy, told from the point of view of the butt of the joke. The longer Burgess's education proceeds, the more unqualified he becomes for useful employment. He meets and later marries a spirited Welsh classmate at Manchester University who has an idiosyncratic notion of marital fidelity: "There were plenty of attractive people around and it would be a shame and a waste not to find out what they were like with their clothes off." World War II offers Burgess nearly six years of wasted time in uniform; he gets...
...Auberon Waugh...
Putting the names Brideshead and Waugh on the same dust jacket may be inspired marketing. But Auberon is Evelyn's son, and this book has nothing to do with nostalgic memories of aristocrats toting Teddy bears. Brideshead Benighted offers, instead, roughly a decade's worth of the author's columns for the Spectator, a British weekly magazine. Waugh does not admire most of his countrymen, including union leaders ("oafs") and contemporary youth ("a lost generation without even the resources to amuse themselves"). He also takes potshots at the Archbishop of Canterbury, Princess Anne and a long line of politicians. Readers...
Travel broadens the horizons. A glance at a Berlin telephone book reveals Ottos everywhere, but hardly any Kimberlys. Evelyn Waugh periodically had to reassure Americans that he was not a woman and that Evelyn was quite a common name for boys in England. Or as Peter Lorre whined in Beat the Devil, "In Chile the name of O'Hara is . . . a tip-top name. Many Germans in Chile have come to be called O'Hara...
...known as the Leopards, wipe out cocaine- processing factories. But "Operation Blast Furnace," which has flooded Trinidad with more than 170 soldiers, a dozen or so agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and representatives from 53 news organizations, has proved as confused an antic as in an Evelyn Waugh novel...