Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LOVED ONE (164 pp.)- Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
...course, parts of Brideshead are wicked, really wicked. But does one have the feeling that Evelyn Waugh himself is wicked enough...
...resent the satires on British mores of such writers as Max Beerbohm, "Saki," and Evelyn Waugh, but he will concede humor to the contrariness of inanimate objects-such as the collar-button under the bureau-preferably someone else's collar-button. He dislikes gloomy foreign philosophies such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism, and he likes to see them made fun of, in his fashion. Recently he has been getting what he wants in some spirited exercises in the Spectator's colums...
...Wonder. Europe's pride is the tender and assertive pride of age. The fashion now among such British intellectuals as Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Essayist Cyril Connolly is to say that only the dying old have life, and that the life and vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more...
Soon after him arrives Slater, a loutish newspaperman modeled after characters in Evelyn Waugh's early novels. Slater wants a raid even if it means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died...