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Category Archives: Newspapers
Happy Hunting Ground Updated
An article in a Mexican newspaper alludes to Waugh’s novel The Loved One. The article is about the cloning of pets and opens with this: In The Loved One , one of his lesser-known novels – though caustic and scathing like … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged BIOCAN, Cloning, La Prensa de Monclova, Rafael Toriz
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Shavian and Wavian
In a recent article in the Irish Times, columnist Frank McNally discussed the derivation of adjectival forms for proper names, wondering for example why people in Cork are known as Corkonians rather than Corkians or Corkists. One example he considers … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Frank McNally, George Bernard Shaw, Irish Times, pronunciation
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NY Times Promotes Decline and Fall TV Streaming
In a new New York Times column entitled “Watching” and carried in its online edition, the paper has an article focusing on four new TV streaming services that specialize in bringing programs from European TV networks to US viewers. These services … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, BBC, New York Times
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Promotion Begins for US Broadcast of Decline and Fall
Several internet sites that track TV streaming services have noted Acorn TV’s offering of the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall. This will begin on May 15. The most interesting is a review on the website TV Equals by P … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, American Spectator, Guardian, TV Equals
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Waugh and George Steer (More)
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has published a feature length story on British correspondent George Steer to mark the 80th anniversary of the attack on Guernica in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Steer, reporting for The Times, is credited with … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Abyssinian War, El Mundo, George Steer, Guernica, The Times
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Decline and Fall and British Humour
Writing in Standpoint magazine (“War on Waugh”), Waugh’s great grand-daughter Constance Watson expresses dismay at the reaction to the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall which recently concluded its three-episode run on BBC One (emphasis supplied): The great British sense … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs, Twitter, Waugh Family
Tagged Alex Larman, BBC, Constance Watson, Guardian, Standpoint
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Cousin Jasper’s Advice
Rosamund Urwin in the Evening Standard has written an article about degree results. She opens with this: In Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited, the protagonist Charles Ryder receives advice from his cousin Jasper before starting his Oxford degree. “You want a … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Diana Cooper, Evening Standard, Literary Hub, Lord Speaker, The American Conservative
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Mugwump Redivivus
In the present UK electoral climate, The Spectator has republished a 1959 article by Evelyn Waugh in which he expressed his views of elected governments: ‘Mugwumps‘ are in the news today, after Boris Johnson used the term to describe Jeremy Corbyn. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Alex Renton, boarding schools, Boris Johnson, elections, Lara Prendergast, mugwumps, The Spectator
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Philip Sassoon, The Duke of Kent and the Sitwells
Waugh crops up in a number of articles about the upper class in the interwar period. In Spear’s magazine, editor William Cash reviews a book by Damian Collins, MP for Folkestone and Hythe. This is a biography of Philip Sassoon entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Christina Beevers, Damian Collins, Duke of Kent, John McLeod, Renishaw Hall, Scottish Daily Mail, Sheffield Star, Spear's magazine, William Cash
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Milk in First (More)
Two papers today have independently quoted Evelyn Waugh on the issue of when to add milk to one’s tea. In the Liverpool Echo there is a feature article on the subject that opens with the claim that “Liverpool is the … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged A N Wilson, Daily Express, landline telephone, Liverpool Echo, milk in first, Sir Ian Ogilvy, Sydney Morning Herald, The Huffington Post
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