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Category Archives: Put Out More Flags
Columbus Day Roundup
–The Financial Times recently conducted an extensive interview of the new editor of the Daily Mail, Geordie Greig. Here’s the opening: There is one thing that a journalist can count on, said a character in Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop: … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Interviews, London, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged 1984, Daily Mail, Edith Sitwell, Financial Times, Radio Spada, The Sunday Times
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Early October Roundup
–In the current issue of TLS, writer Henry Hitchins reviews the two recent collections of the writings of Auberon Waugh. The review, entitled “Like a fine whine”, opens with this: “Looking back over my career to date, and at all … Continue reading
80th Anniversary of WWII
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of WWII when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The attack fulfilled Evelyn Waugh’s expectations that a war was imminent after Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact the previous week. See … Continue reading
Basil Seal Rides Yet Again
The Daily Telegraph has a review of a book entitled Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming by Alan Ogden. This is about something called D Division (or “deception organization”) in the Inter-Services Liaison Department. Peter Fleming, Ian’s older … Continue reading
Biography of a Poem: W H Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
The Times has a review of a new book by Ian Sansom in its “Book of the Week” column. This is a “biography” of W H Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939” soon to celebrate its 80th birthday. The review by … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged The Times, W H Auden
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Harold Acton’s Estate Subject of Lawsuit
The New York Post’s celebrity gossip website PageSix,com has posted a story relating to Harold Acton’s bequest of his estate near Florence, Italy to New York University. Acton died childless in 1994 and left most of his fine art and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Harold Acton, New York Post, The Oldie, Villa La Pietra
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New French Edition of POMF Reviewed
The Paris newspaper Liberation has published a detailed review of the new French edition of Put Out Out More Flags (Hissez le grand pavois; literally “Hoist the great bulwark”). This is by Philippe Garnier who begins by explaining that the … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged Liberation, Philippe Garnier
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Roundup
–Two posts independently made the same point earlier this week relating to Jewish-American writer Chaim Potok. Potok wrote mostly of the Orthodox Hassidic Jewish community. The first notice appeared on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac: When he was about 14 years … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged BBC History Magazine, Chaim Potok, Country Houses, Henry VI, Irish Times, Max Hastings, The Times
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Waugh’s “Hungry Novels” in TLS
Literary journalist and critic Laura Freeman writes in this week’s TLS of a subgenre she defines as the “hungry novels” which flourished in the 1940s-50s. Her essay opens with an extended reference to the scene in Brideshead Revisited where Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Put Out More Flags, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Hungry Novels, Laura Freeman, TLS
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