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Tag Archives: Washington Post
Late September Roundup
–A recent issue of the Financial Times carries a story of the impact of Evelyn Waugh and his contemporaries on the latest mens fashions. Here’s an excerpt: This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beatonās diaries, the … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Boston Herald, Financial Times, Jonathan Raban, Rupert Murdoch, Washington Post
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Memorial Day/Spring Bank Holiday Roundup
—The Spectator has posted a memorial tribute to its recently deceased columnist Jeremy Clarke. This is by David Goodhart who writes that he gave Clarke his start as a journalist. Clarke’s longest and best known gig was the Low-Life column … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Obituaries, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Jeremy Clarke, Martin Amis, The Daily Sceptic, The Lamp, The Spectator, The Times, Washington Post
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Bank Holiday Roundup
—Country Life has posted the second part of their interesting and informative essay on the building and decoration of Campion Hall at Oxford. The first installment was described in an earlier post. Here’s an excerpt relating to Waugh’s contribution to … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Anniversaries, Edmund Campion, Oxford, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Campion Hall, Country Life, Edge Media Network, First Things, The Spectator, Washington Post, William Shakespeare
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Roundup: “The Waste Land” Centenary
–The centenary of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land has been marked in several print and broadcast media. The Washington Post notes the poem’s appearance in Brideshead Revisited: First published in theĀ inaugural October 1922 issueĀ of Eliotās literary magazine, the Criterion, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Diario de Sevilla, T S Eliot, The Conversation, The Epoch Times, The Spectator, W Somerset Maugham, Washington Post
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Roundup: Boris Johnson, Arcadia and a Feghoot
–The New Statesman mentions Waugh twice in separate articles recounting the last days of Boris Johnson’s premiership. The first is by Jason Cowley and is entitled “In 2019 Boris Johnson had everything he wanted. But the gods were waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Feghoots, New Statesman, The Spectator, TLS, Washington Post
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P J O’Rourke 1947-2022 R.I.P.
American satirist P J O’Rourke died earlier this week at the age of 74. He made his name as a conservative commentator but was an equal opportunity satirist. For example,Ā according to the obituary in the Washington Post, he once … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged New York Times, P J O'Rourke, Spiked, Washington Post
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MLK Birthday Roundup
–In the Daily Telegraph, combining elements of the travel and gardening columns, Matt Collins describes a recent trip to the Atlantic island of Madeira: Upholding at least six of writer Paul Therouxās 10 golden rules of travel, I went alone … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anne Messel, Daily Telegraph, New York Times, Penguin Modern Classics, The Spectator, The Times, TLS, Washington Post
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Brideshead Floribundum
Waugh’s most popular book Brideshead Revisited seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. Much, but not all of this is directed to prior and projected film and TV adaptations: —The Spectator’s supplement Spectator Life several weeks ago posted … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Paste Magazine, RTE, The Spectator, Washington Post
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Roundup: Boyd, Banville and Paper Hats
–Novelist William Boyd is interviewed in The Times by Robbie Millen. This is on the occasion of the publication of Boyd’s new novel TrioĀ which is about the creation of a film in the late 1960s. After establishing Boyd’s somewhat … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Letters, Scoop, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged A N Wilson, Books from Scotland, John Banville, Lisa Hilton, The Critic, The Times, Washington Post, William Boyd
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Early November Roundup
–The Daily Mail reprints extracts from the gossipy personal diaries of journalist and biographer Kenneth Rose. These are from the second volume entitled Who Wins, Who Loses? covering the period 1979-2014: March 29, 1982. Geoffrey Warnock [Oxford vice-chancellor] tells me … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Mail, Kenneth Rose, Raritan, The Times, Washington Post
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