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...daily Beast was already telling his correspondent precisely what coverage he wanted: "A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side, and a colourful entry into the capital." Such was the quality of African reportage half a century ago, as described by Novelist Evelyn Waugh in his hilarious classic Scoop. To officials of modern-day African nations, as well as those of other developing countries of the so-called Third World, not enough has changed since Waugh's day. Western coverage of their affairs, they complain, is cursory, colored by colonialist idioms and preoccupied...
...industry of publishing, into a respectable and highly lucrative branch of journalism. Hardly any activity nowadays is without benefit of a newsletter, from Abortion Trends to Zoo's Letter. Aficionados of cartoons and soap operas have their typewritten grapevines, as do owners of Pet Rocks, fans of Evelyn Waugh and students of the Kondatrieff wave theory of economics. Circulations range from a few dozen to 430,000, for the 54-year-old Kiplinger Washington Letter; subscriptions cost anywhere from nothing to $3,600 a year, for French Journalist Danielle Hunebelle's International Letter, a monthly economic report...
Wolfe's problem is his concern with style, with appearance, with fashion. One can only decide that he fancies himself the new Bernard Shaw. He goes on at great lengths in "Funky Chic" defending Evelyn Waugh whom he says will be remembered as the greatest English novelist of the 20th century for his concern with the stuff of life--manners, dress, the Right People. He continually attacks what he considers the accoutrements of bogus sophistication--white-walled apartments on Riverside Drive, unread stacks of The New York Review of Books, Coltrane records on the stereo. All that can be said...
Anderson may have a couple of other intentions: to score a public relations coup for his company and acquire a direct pipeline to Britain's ruling elite. Founded in 1791, the Observer has published some well-known British writers -George Orwell, Arnold Toynbee and, posthumously, Evelyn Waugh-and taken a few risks along the way. The paper was persecuted by the Crown for reporting the secret trial of the Cato Street conspirators in 1820, and alienated many readers by denouncing the British invasion of Suez...
Martin Fridson '74, Jeffrey A. Danziger '78, John M. Tavares '77, Daniel Waugh '77, Ramon Morant '78, Tim Gorski '77-2, Benjamin G. Davis '77, Daniel W. Moore '76, Chris Savage '77, George Varughese '77, and Jarius L. DeWalt '76 work for Southwestern...