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Tag Archives: David Platzer
Memoir of “The Loot”
David Platzer has written a memoir of his acquaintanceship with Stuart Preston who was well known during his military service days among Waugh and his friends in WWII London. The memoir, entitled “A Sergeant Abroad”, appears in the latest issue … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Andy Warhol, David Platzer, New Criterion, Stuart Preston
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Martin Green Reconsidered
Writing in the New Criterion, David Platzer reconsiders a 1976 book by Martin Green (1927-2010), late Professor at Tufts University. This is called Children of the Sun and is described by Platzer as a book about: the remarkable literary generation, … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged David Platzer, Harold Acton, Martin Green, New Criterion
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Compton Mackenzie Reconsidered
In the wake of the recent New Statesman essay seeking to revive an interest in JB Priestley, the latest New Criterion has published one seeking to create a renewed interest in another neglected novelist of the same period. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Compton Mackenzie, David Platzer, New Criterion, Sinister Street
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