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Category Archives: Academia
Labor Day Roundup
–Sebastian Payne writing in the Financial Times describes a non-boring dinner party of his own contrivance. The venue will be Riley’s Fish Shack at Tynemouth on the northeast coast of England and the chef will be Adam Riley, apparently owner … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Lectures, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Durham University, Financial Times, Irish Times, Oxford University Press, The Tablet
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Waugh’s V-J Day
V-J Day celebrates its 75th anniversary this week. The Japanese surrendered on 15 August 1945 in Japan but the news was received when it was 14 August in the UK and USA. In Britain this was a much lesser event … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Diaries
Tagged DJ Taylor, Kings College London, New Statesman, Prof Ashley Jackson, Randolph Churchill, V-J Day
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Challenging Waugh Question
On this week’s BBC Two episode of University Challenge, a Waugh reference formed one half of a 10 point question. Jeremy Paxman presented the question thus: What five letter word links an ironic synonym for “Force” in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Jeremy Paxman, University Challenge
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End-of-July Roundup
—The Economist magazine’s 1843 section has an article by Catherine Nixey entitled: “The death of nostalgia”. It is subtitled: “People used to pine for a simpler life. Now they’ve got it – and it’s not all it’s cracked up to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Economist, First Things, Harry Mottram, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Tatler, The Spectator
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Caveat Lector
The Kenyon Review posts another article by writer Aatif Rashid about re-reading Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: In a piece last month, I wrote about my admiration for Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. [See previous post.] But my experience reading it was actually more … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works
Tagged Aatif Rashid, Kenyon Review
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Roundup: Riots and Pestilence
–Conservative essayist and editor Roger Kimball writing in the journal The Epoch Times (describing itself as “non-partisan” but otherwise characterized elsewhere) addresses the controversial subject of political protests and street riots in the USA. The article is entitled “Those Burning … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law
Tagged Diario de Noticias, Georgetown University Library, Sunday Telegraph, The Epoch News, The Spectator
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Monsignor Rittig Revisited
The Zagreb newspaper VeÄŤernji list has published an interview of the writer and religion scholar Margareta Matijevic who has recently written a book about the Yugoslav priest and  politician Svetozar Rittig. From what I can gather from the computerized translation … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Diaries, Interviews, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Croatia, Svetozar Rittig, VeÄŤernji List, Yugoslavia
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Waugh and “The Editorial Line”
The Mexican newspaper El Universal has posted an opinion article on the political situation in Mexico that opens with a quote from Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This is entitled “La linea editorial”: Evelyn Waugh published in 1938 a satirical novel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged El Universal, Mexico: politics
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Roundup: Audrey Lucas and More
–Duncan Mclaren has added more information to his website concerning Waugh’s friendship with actress and writer Audrey Lucas. This takes the form of an imagined interview of Audrey by Nancy Mitford in advance of the now postponed Brideshead Festival at … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Collections, Newspapers, Oxford, Put Out More Flags, Scoop
Tagged Audrey Lucas, Cherwell, Daily Mail, Duncan McLaren, Express & Star (Wolverhampton), Penguin Books
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New Volume of CWEW Announced: Helena, v. 11
The Oxford University Press has posted the next volume of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. This is his 1950 novel Helena which will appear as volume 11 in November. The OUP descripton is posted on their website. Here’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Items for Sale
Tagged Oxford University Press, Sara Haslam
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