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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Paul Johnson: Novelists at Arms
Paul Johnson in Standpoint magazine surveys novels and novelists of the Second World War, including James Jones, Norman Mailer, Olivia Manning, Anthony Powell, and Evelyn Waugh: It is a mistake, in my view, to hold a popularity contest between A … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Powell, James Jones, Norman Mailer, Olivia Manning, Second World War, Standpoint, WWII
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Waugh meets a Lancing Old Boy at the Dorchester
The EWS thanks Mr. Ric Cooper for the following delightful anecdote, which arrived by email: My father, Giles Cooper, dramatised Sword of Honour for BBC television in 1966. Before the project could be confirmed, he and his long-time collaborator Donald … Continue reading
Comedian specializing in Evelyn Waugh wins BBC Mastermind quiz
Comedian Russell Kane, who chose The Life and Novels of Evelyn Waugh as his special subject, won BBC Television's Children In Need Mastermind Special 2011, broadcast on BBC2 on Nov. 11th. He scored an unusually high 18 out of 19 … Continue reading
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World Books Broadsheet, Dec. 1948
Correspondent Roger Osborn has sent the EWS scans in PDF format of a two-sided flier he found laid in a secondhand copy of When the Going Was Good, published by World Books, The Reprint Society, London, in December 1948. The … Continue reading
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The cult of Brideshead among Oxbridge students
"Brideshead Regurgiated: Is the cult of Brideshead among Cantabridgians harmless fun, or does it conceal a regressive social agenda?" [Daniel Janes, The Cambridge Student]
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Television
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