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Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal
V S Naipaul (1932-2018) R.I.P.
V S Naipaul, writer of fiction and non-fiction, mostly about third world countries or their natives displaced to other lands, has died in England at the age of 85. His last notable action was to win the Nobel Prize in … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days
Tagged Hawthornden Prize, New York Times, Nobel Prize, Stabroek News, V S Naipaul, Wall Street Journal
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Weekend Roundup: Waugh in the Book Reviews
The Daily Telegraph reviews a book by Julie Summers entitled Our Uninvited Guests about the wartime use of British country houses to shelter evacuated refugees from the bombed out cities or provide military bases. The review is by Robert Leigh-Pemberton … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Helena, Letters, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged America, Bob Dylan, Daily Telegraph, Margaret Millar, Mark Twain, Ross McDonald, Thomas Merton, Wall Street Journal
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“Night and Day”– A Londoner’s “New Yorker”
Literary critic and journalist Terry Teachout has written an article in the Wall Street Journal about the short-lived magazine Night and Day. This is entitled “The Magazine Shirley Temple Shut Down”. According to Teachout: The New Yorker has been around … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Graham Greene, Night and Day, Shirley Temple, Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
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Decline and Fall in the US Papers
The TV Critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, David Weigand, has written a quite favorable review of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall which will debut tomorrow in the US: Biting wit and a farcically frothy plot make “Decline … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, David Weigand, James Wood, San Francisco Chronicle, Tobias Grey, Wall Street Journal
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WSJ Traces Etymology of “Scoop”
The Wall Street Journal has an article in which it traces the origin of the word “scoop” and its application to a journalistic coup where one reporter gets his story out ahead of the others who are (or should be) … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Jimmy Weiskopf, The City Paper (Bogota), Wall Street Journal, Woody Allen
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Waugh Biography Reviewed in the US Press
Reviews have appeared in two US newspapers of the new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade, published earlier this month in the US. In the Wall Street Journal, the book is reviewed by British novelist and journalist Allan Massie. (If … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Allan Massie, Micah Mattix, Philip Eade, Wall Street Journal, Washington Free Beacon
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Lt Hooper Enters US Politics
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Tim Kaine, Democratic candidate for Vice President is likened to Waugh’s character Lt Hooper from his novel Brideshead Revisited: Though a bit character, [Hooper] plays an indispensible role. In his unquestioning embrace of the dominant pieties of his … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Tim Kaine, Wall Street Journal, William McGurn
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Waugh on Champagne in WSJ
Evelyn Waugh’s advice on when to drink champagne is offered again in a Wall Street Journal article on the subject. As noted in an earlier post, this comes from an article he wrote for Vogue magazine near the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Auberon Waugh, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Champagne, Wall Street Journal
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The Long Weekend (More)
D.J. Taylor has reviewed Adrian Tinniswood’s book The Long Weekend in the Wall Street Journal. This is a social history of Britain between the wars. Both Alec and Evelyn Waugh merit attention in Taylor’s article, which is entitled “Do not … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Adrian Tinniswood, Country Houses, D.J.Taylor, Wall Street Journal
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