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Category Archives: Scoop
Coronation Roundup
–This week’s most widely reported event has to be the Coronation. A Spanish paper (Crónica Global) has made a story out of a widely-circulated cheer sent up at a recent football match by Glasgow Celtic fans. (My recollection is that … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged BOMB Magazine, Coronation, Cronica Global, John Cockcraft, The Times
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Roundup: Mostly Books and a Makeover in North Wales
—The Spectator reviews a book by journalist and author Simon Winchester entitled Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic. Reviewer Dennis Duncan mentions that there is a discussion of Waugh’s Scoop in the book: … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Daily Mail, Franco, Jacobin.com, Literary Potpourri, National Catholic Register, The Spectator
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Daylight Savings (UK) Roundup: Pre-Raphaelites at the Tate Britain
–Tate Britain has mounted a major exhibit of Pre-Raphaelite painting of and by Elizabeth Siddal. This is described in an article by Iona McLaren in the Daily Telegraph: For modern readers, accustomed to the legend of Siddal as the “meek, unconscious dove” … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Scoop
Tagged Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Britain, The Catholic Weekly, The Daily Telegraph, The London Magazine, The Namibian, The Times
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Daylight Savings (USA) Roundup
–Duncan McLaren has posted on his weblog a discussion regarding Graham Greene’s possible portrayal of Waugh in his 1940s novel The Heart of the Matter. He was a composite part of the character based primarily on some one Greene had … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Guardian, Quillette.com, Russell Kane, The Jewish Voice, The Spectator
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Roundup
–Novelist and biographer A N Wilson has published a detailed review of John Betjeman’s recently rebroadcast program Metroland. This appears in a recent issue of the Daily Mail. The BBC rebroadcast was mentioned in the previous Roundup. Wilson who was … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Scoop, Television, The Loved One
Tagged A N Wilson, City Journal, Daily Mail, Esquire, John Betjeman, New York Review of Books
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Roundup: Waugh Venues and School Envy
–The American print media have finally discovered the news about the sale of Piers Court. A brief article appears in the New Yorker entitled “For Sale: Evelyn Waugh’s Manor House, 8 BR/24 Acres/1 Waugh-Obsessed Tenant”. This begins with a summary … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Piers Court, Scoop
Tagged Conde Nast Traveller, New Yorker, Oxford Blue, The Article
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New Year’s Roundup
–Discussions of Waugh’s taste in clothing have appeared in two recent blogs. One relates to tweed suits, something Waugh obviously admired and inadvertently promoted. Here is an excerpt from the “Grey Fox” website: The Italian word ‘sprezzatura’ perfectly describes that … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Catholic Herald, Clothes styles, Daily Telegraph, South China Morning Post, Tweed
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World Cup Roundup
–A recent book with a Waugh theme was listed (with reservations) among the Daily Telegraph year’s best biographies: Daisy Dunn’s Not Far From Brideshead (W&N, £20) is less satisfactory. What should be a dynamite intellectual history of how three great classicists – Gilbert … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television Programs
Tagged Castle Howard, Channel 4, Church Times, Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, The Times newspaper
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Roundup: Mostly Books
–The Public Domain Review has posted an article and links to reproductions from a noted piece of Victoriana in the Waugh Collection at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. Here’s the opening: The novelist Evelyn Waugh was an inveterate … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Interview Magazine, Irish Times, J F Powers, New Statesman, Public Domain Review
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