Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereafter his career sounds like something by Evelyn Waugh, filled with wrecks, broken legs, poetry, rebellion, with great leaps from continent to continent, and terms at Harvard sandwiched between visits to New Zealand for skiing, to Rapallo, Italy to see Ezra Pound. Recovering after breaking his legs skiing down Mt. Washington, he got a job as literary editor of New Democracy, a short-lived weekly preaching Social Credit. When New Democracy folded, he decided to keep on publishing his own department as a literary annual...
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SCOOP-Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
...Evelyn Waugh (pronounced Waw) is the Erskine Caldwell of the British upper classes. The feeble-minded baronets that he pictured in Vile Bodies and Decline and Fall peer out upon the great world in contented incomprehension. Although they are not as hungry as Caldwell's Tobacco Roaders, they have the same weary way of repeating themselves, the same facility in wrecking automobiles, the same batlike blinking bewilderment, when some thing new appears. When Decline and Fall, published in 1929, won extraordinary acclaim for its 25-year-old author, critics said that Waugh looked like England's strongest claim...
Scoop covers much of the ground covered in Waugh's account of his experiences as a war correspondent, Waugh in Abyssinia. But it has one major difference. In Waugh in Abyssinia he described how he lived for some time with a mysterious Mr. Rickett. Rickett, hinting that he had important news to disclose, was so vague that Waugh, not interested, missed the best news story of the war: when Rickett got Ethiopia's oil and mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl...