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...roots; he joked with Lake City residents about looking for his hometown from space. When a stranger asked where he was from, he would answer simply, "Lake City." McNair spoke often about returning to his home state. "As excited as Ron was about the space program," said J.D. Waugh, dean of U.S.C.'s college of engineering, "he felt it was time to put that part of his life behind him. He had two kids, and he wanted to think about what was best for them." McNair leaves behind him those two children and millions more who know what stars...
...Caroline Rennolds Milbank's Couture fills a real need. Very little of substance has been written about couturiers. Most of the best commentary on their work is squirreled away in novels: Proust's chronicling of the shift from Belle Epoque bustles to the more natural silhouette, Fitzgerald's and Waugh's pointillist evocations of '30s glamour, Mary McCarthy's accurate, often satiric eye for all feminine strategies...
...ideal museum show would therefore be a mating of Brideshead Revisited (the only vulgar novel Evelyn Waugh wrote) with House & Garden. It should borrow widely and set forth an impressive parade of authoritative objects, with special attention paid to the decorative arts. It should sketch a portrait of a vanished order without revisionist detail, thus provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. Its opening nights should be long, socially frantic and attended by as many titled lenders and assorted Chinless Wonders as can be flown across the Atlantic. Royalty should be present...
That was what everyone once said about Kingsley Amis. Now he finds himself being compared with Evelyn Waugh. "I'm flattered," Amis says, "but the analogy is misleading. Waugh wrote very elegant comedy. His people spoke beautifully. Compared with his works, mine look like grim documentaries. You know," he goes on, "critics will accuse you of doing what you're trying to do. They will say things like 'This book is frightfully funny on page 18 and not funny at all on page 20.' That's just the effect I wanted. The standard critique on me goes something like this...
...year before Macon and Wife Sarah separate, their twelve-year-old son Ethan is among bystanders systematically shot and killed by hold-up men at a fast-food outlet. Baldly stated, the irony seems a tasteless contrivance: Son of Junk-Food Expert Slain ) at Burger Bonanza. But like Evelyn Waugh in A Handful of Dust and John Irving in The World According to Garp, Tyler uses the senseless loss of a child to refine feelings out of a parent's worst fears...