Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduction, Novelist Evelyn Waugh deftly sums up Carson's rare special quality: "His associates are almost all of the underworld; his own condition is precarious; his morality, as he describes it, is extremely loose; but he betrays no resentment or scorn of those whose habits are more orderly. He is a hedonist and a sensualist joyfully celebrating the huge variety of life. There is something of Norman Douglas in him, something of Firbank, nothing at all of the 'sick' or the 'beat...
Such doings may sound like something the author picked up at the last sale of Waugh assets. Actually, this account of the giddy life in an upper-class club for young women in London just after V-E day is touched by a cheerful inhumanity all Muriel Spark's own. "As they realized themselves," she writes about the May of Teck Club members, "few people alive at the time were more delightful, more ingenious, more movingly lovely, and, as it might happen, more savage...
Burgess, a member of an old English Catholic family, was a composer and teacher before he became a fulltime writer four years ago. His earlier book, Devil of a State, is a Waugh-like account of a fictional state remarkably like Brunei, where he had served as educational adviser to the Sultan. It won praise for what seemed like the high spirits of a young talent (Burgess was then 42). It gave little hint of the moral seriousness of Orange, where the brassily orchestrated jive of nadsat is used to point up a grave philosophic theme. It is a gruesomely...
...SLOTH, which St. Thomas defined as "sadness in the face of spiritual good/' is very much present in modern novels and plays, writes Evelyn Waugh. It is personified by the man who lost his faith "as though faith were an extraneous possession like an umbrella, which can be inadvertently left behind in a railway-carriage." Waugh also argues that a sin closely allied to sloth, pigritia (slackness), is gaining: people have "'no time' to read or cook or even to dress decorously, while in their offices and workshops they do less and less, in quality and quantity...
...small but noisy neo-Nazi movement provoked a Trafalgar Square riot with anti-Semitic speeches two weeks ago, a pro-Labor country squire, Lord Walston, wrote the London Observer an angry letter calling for extensive laws to curb excesses in public speech. Replying a week later, mischievous Satirist Evelyn Waugh, 59, penned his own modest proposal to the lord. Wrote Waugh: "May I commend to him a group whose interests, I am sure, lie near his heart: his own peers? . . . They have, like the Jews, been the objects of frequent, atrocious attack. They are now held up continuously to hatred...