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Tag Archives: Financial Times
Christmas Roundup
–In The Times newspaper AN Wilson has written a seasonal essay entitled “How I stopped being a Christmas snob.” He begins with an explanation how he had become one: When a young man in my twenties, I devoured a biography … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Christmas, Financial Times, Irish Times, The New European, The Times
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Winter Solstice Roundup
–This letter appeared in a recent issue of The Times newspaper: DECLARATION OF WAUGH Sir, The late Duchess of Devonshire showed me a book given to her by the Roman Catholic Evelyn Waugh, having an inscription by him along the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Piers Court, Remote People, Ronald Knox
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Financial Times, Spectator, The Times
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Roundup: Oxford, Metro-Land and Commandos
—The Times has a review of the recent book about Waugh and the Oxford-based Hypocrites Club, entitled Hellfire. See previous posts. This is reviewed by Daisy Dunn who opens with a well written summary of some of the book’s high … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Commandos, Financial Times, Marcel Proust, Metro-Land, The Imaginative Conservative, The Times newspaper
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BBC WWII Commando Series
The BBC has scheduled the broadcast of a 6-part docudrama series on the WWII Commandos. This will focus on the SAS, which was the brainchild of Commando David Stirling with whom Waugh was serving in 8 Commando in 1941. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, Christopher Sykes, Commandos, Daily Telegraph, David Stirling, Financial Times, History Magazine, SAS
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Middlemarch Roundup
–The Financial Times recently considered the revival of the sleeveless sweater–a/k/a tank top or V-neck: “As far as I know, the history of the tank top starts from the 1930s, where men would wear a V-neck slipover that was often … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Daily Mail, Financial Times, Public Discourse, Taki Theodoracopulos, The Spectator
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Roundup: Parties, T-shirts and Statues
–The Financial Times has an article by Rosa Lyster on “What makes a great fictional party.” This is inspired by the party drought that was only broken only a few months ago: …As well as people, music and a reason … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Television
Tagged Bodleian Library, British Library, Financial Times, T-shirts, Variety
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Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
–10 December will mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Christopher Hitchens. This is commemorated in the Financial Times by an article entitled “The World Christopher Hitchens Left Behind”. This is by Janan Ganash who might have used as … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Helena, Lectures, Newspapers, Oxford, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Herald, Christopher Hitchens, Financial Times, Irish Times, New Statesman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Quadrant
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Roundup: From Party Going to Boredom
–A recent issue of Financial Times contains a “Weekend Essay” on the return of the party, to London and New York at least. This is by Alex Bilmes who is editor of Esquire. After reminiscing about how party going shut … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, Work Suspended
Tagged Craig Brown, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Madeleine Kearns, Mail on Sunday, National Catholic Register, The Spectator
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Roundup
–The exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s works relating to the Bright Young People of the 1920s has reopened in Sheffield. This was originally scheduled for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London last spring but was forced to close after … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Radio Programs, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Alexei Sayle, BBC, Financial Times, Millennium Gallery Sheffield, The Indiependent
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Labor Day Roundup
–Sebastian Payne writing in the Financial Times describes a non-boring dinner party of his own contrivance. The venue will be Riley’s Fish Shack at Tynemouth on the northeast coast of England and the chef will be Adam Riley, apparently owner … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Lectures, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Durham University, Financial Times, Irish Times, Oxford University Press, The Tablet
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