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...Caribbean island of Grenada has always been too good to be believed. With its beautiful beaches, verdant mountains, balmy climate and charming Old World atmosphere, it was "the one small island," Novelist Alec Waugh once wrote, "that provides everything a preconceived picture of the tropics has led a visitor to expect...
Eugene arrives, all right, only to be enmeshed in a tricky fate that somewhat resembles the ending of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust. There a Briton, made captive in the jungle by a fellow Briton, finds that he must spend the rest of his life reading Dickens aloud for his cap tor's delectation...
Angus Wilson seemed to begin where Evelyn Waugh and Aldous Hux ley left off. It was as if he had been born a middle-aged comedian, clever but desolate. For him there was no initial period when a young satirist simply func tions: a predatory animal savagely but happily on the hunt...
...even attempted essays in mysticism (The Old Men at the Zoo). As If By Magic is a little of all of these, but curiously - Wilson, after all, is now 60 - it reads more like the early Waugh-Huxley novel the author never got to write. In spirit it may well be his most youthful book. As with Huxley, there is an "idea" at bottom. Hamo Langmuir, a famous British plant breeder, is off on a VIP tour to see how his hybrid rice, nicknamed "Magic," is faring as England's gift to the Green Revolution. Hamo's goddaughter...
...emergency took hold, the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square were dimmed in order to conserve electricity. TIME asked British Satirist and Author Auberon Waugh (son of Novelist Evelyn Waugh) to comment on the mood of the nation in the midst of its latest eco nomic crises. His acerbic reflections, which represent a sig nificant minority opinion in Britain...