Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew a little more. In 1930, on a trip through Africa and the Middle East, Novelist Evelyn Waugh had dined with Besse on the roof of his home in Aden. Waugh had described him (under the pseudonym of M. Leblanc) in When the Going Was Good: "He talked of Abyssinia, where he had heavy business undertakings ... he expressed his contempt for the poetry of Rimbaud . . ." He thrived on risk and had made and lost more than one fortune. He liked shark-infested waters: it made swimming more interesting...
...tiny populations of Scandinavia can never hope to oppose aggression with physical force," wrote Novelist Evelyn Waugh after a visit to Scandinavia last year. "If they are to survive it must be through spiritual strength, and there alas . . . they are woefully enfeebled . . . They are secularized from infancy by the omnicompetent state, and as a result are unique in history in having no religion...
...Stockholm, the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen recently conducted a debate between teen-agers on "Youth and the Church." Their comments seem to bear out Waugh's indictment. "I have not been to church since confirmation," declared Bobby-Soxer Karin Eriksson; "I don't want to be a slave to any God." "And I don't go to church because I cannot stand the overbearing condescending manners of preachers," stated Gunnel Sandstrom. "What we need," said 18-year-old Gustaf Renneus of Kungsholm, "is a priest who is also a sportsman, one who talks our language without any humbug...
Novelist Evelyn Waugh has said of his friend's translation: "It is unquestioned that for the past 300 years the Authorized Version has been the greatest single formative influence in English prose style. But that time is over . . . When the Bible ceases, as it is ceasing, to be accepted as a sacred text, it will not long survive for its fine writing. It seems to me probable that in a hundred years' time the only Englishmen who know their Bibles will be Catholics. And they will know it in Msgr. Knox's version...
...Waugh is right, Catholic Christians of 2048 will learn about the Creation in these words: God, at the beginning of time, created heaven and earth. Earth was still an empty waste, and darkness hung over the deep; but already, over its waters, brooded the Spirit of God. Then God said, Let there be light; and the light began...