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Died. Evelyn Waugh, 62, Britain's Edwardian gentleman at pen points with the 20th century; of a heart attack; in Somerset, England (see page...
...like a scene from an early novel by Evelyn Waugh. An intellectual dandy, hardly a year out of Oxford and already weary of the world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...
...achieved recognition as the grand old mandarin of modern British prose and as a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters. In 15 novels of cunning construction and lapidary eloquence, Evelyn Waugh developed a wickedly hilarious and yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world. God it had killed and in his stead had raised up gadgets; and in gadgets...
Poems & Twenty-Five Poems. Paul Valery, Charmes & La Jeune Parque. Arthur Waley, 770 Chinese Poems. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts. William Carlos Williams, Paterson. Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse...
...Waugh attributed the rise in the number of applicants to growing anxiety over hints that undergraduates will be drafted. Enlisting in OCS assures deferment until graduation...