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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Waugh’s Article on Catholics in America Quoted
Author and critic Terry Teachout who writes for the Wall Steert Journal and Commentary has posted on his arts news weblog, without comment, a quote from Evelyn Waugh’s 1949 Life Magazine article entitled “The American Epoch in the Catholic Church”: … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Life Magazine, Terry Teachout
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Waugh and the Hendon Nudists
An article appears in the Londonist (an online magazine devoted to local news about London, past and present) relating to a 1930 incident when a group of nudists chose to sunbathe unclothed at a Hendon lake called the Welsh Harp. This was … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, London, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Londonist, nudism, sunbathing
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NR Marks 10th Anniversary of Latin Mass Revival
An article in the National Review cites today (7 July 2017) as the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict’s action to revive the Latin Mass. This was an action that had been sought by the founder of the National Review, William … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Labels, Newspapers
Tagged Latin Mass, marriage, National Review, Tablet Magazine
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Waugh and Mussolini
The Tablet has published a review of two new books about Benito Mussolini, Italy’s Fascist dictator in the 1930s and Hitler’s ally in WWII. The review by Robert Carver opens with this summary of Mussolini’s reputation in Britain before the war: In … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Waugh in Abyssinia, World War II
Tagged Benito Mussolini, The Tablet
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Commonweal Marks J F Powers Centenary
The Roman Catholic literary magazine Commonweal has marked the centenary of novelist J F Powers birth with an article on Powers’ career entitled “His Bleak Materials” by biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers. The article begins with Meyers’ memoir of a 1981 … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Commonweal, J F Powers, Jeffrey Meyers
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Two Openings and a Debut
A Waugh quote opens an article in the South China Morning Post about Djibouti: Not that long ago, Djibouti was known for little more than French legionnaires, atrocious heat and being at the other end of a railway line to … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Hampstead, Newspapers, Remote People
Tagged Djibouti, Elsa Lanchester, Risk.net, Running Past, SCMP, The Scarlet Woman
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Sports Day Revival
After falling out of favor, at least at the more progressive public schools, competitive sports are having a revival. According to Jane Shilling, writing in the Daily Telegraph, that has also created a renewed interest in sports days. For some, … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jane Shilling, Sports Days
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Waugh’s 1930
An anonymous Spanish-language blogger posting on picapicaweb has written a series of six brief articles tracing Evelyn Waugh’s movements in the year 1930. “Pica pica” is the scientific word for magpie, and the blogger claims to pick up those bits of information … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Remote People, Vile Bodies
Tagged 1930s, Africa, picapicaweb
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Pinfold and the Paranormal
A blogger posting as Truthspoon.com has made a detailed analysis of Evelyn Waugh’s novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and compared the hallucinations described there with those reported by victims of alleged invasive electronic surveillance. According to the blogpost, Waugh’s novel: …gives a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Radio Programs, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Uncategorized
Tagged Diary of an Autodidact, John Metcalf, Truthspoon.com, Walrus.ca
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