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...Toby on her hook, then lets him off. Instead of savaging him as he deserves, she plays plot games with the side question: Will the antiadultery adulterer get caught? Or else she putters about with the stock characters of English comedy: a gossip columnist straight out of Evelyn Waugh, a giddy old upper-class biddy of the sort invariably played by Margaret Rutherford...
Waifs & Strays. This is fundamentally the story of all prodigals, and through it the book attempts to get to the heart of America as a country of wanderers -or as Evelyn Waugh put it, "a nation of waifs and strays...
Peter D. L. Stansky, assistant professor of History and the course instructor, evidently takes intellectual change seriously. The last item on the reading list, which includes Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and E.M. Forster, is "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." And it is required...
...American public life the sense of shared experience, trust, and common purpose that seem to be draining out of it, the quality of public design has got to be made a public issue because it is a politcal fact. The retreat from magnificence, to use a phrase of Evelyn Waugh's, has gone on long enough: too long. An era of great public works is as much needed in America as any other single element in our public life. Magnificence does not mean monumental. That seems to be a point to be stressed. I have heard Saul Steinberg quoted...
Unfortunately, Author Daley (who used to be a New York Times correspondent) commands a prose style all too reminiscent of the newspaper he satirizes. And the satire itself is nowhere near the first rank of press spoofery, which is occupied alone by Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Scoop! The Whole Truth can only be taken as a broad burlesque of pat-a-cake editors, cream-puff reporters, puff-piece journalists-crumb-bums...