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...Cmdr. Samuel A. Waugh Jr., Head of Officer Programs in the Boston area, reported that a flood of applications has swamped his office He called his predicament "typical...
Even if it's way overdone in places, the screenplay of Evelyn Waugh's takeoff on California culture often hits where it hurts. Whispering Glades, the super cemetery for people, and The Happy Hunting Ground, its animal counterpart, are classics. Candy-lovers will recognize Terry Southern's hand immediately. Jonathan Winters is great as The Blessed Reverend Glenworthy and his poor brother Harry, cemetery keepers both; he's the ne-ne-na-na-no-nu baby Frickett grown...
This intriguing little tale of wartime skulduggery, somewhat reminiscent of The Man Who Never Was, is a minor episode in Alec Waugh's rambling but always engrossing story about a British counterespionage unit in Beirut during...
...MULE ON THE MINARET by Alec Waugh. 506 pages. Farrar, Straus and G/'roux...
World War II. The officers are overage, the women bed-prone, but with part of their time and part of their minds, they feel themselves part of the war effort. Although they never hear a shot fired in anger, Waugh shows how war changes or destroys them all. In the end, Waugh's hero, a mild-mannered professor of history and philosophy in peacetime, still cannot decide whether it has all been worthwhile, but he consoles himself with an aphorism, which might also be the message of the book: "It's easy to be happy when you know...