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  Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was born in London into a comfortable middle-class family.
After being dismissed, Alec Waugh wrote an autobiographical book of the event, which in practice had prevented Evelyn from entering the same college.
The biography of Ronald A. Knox (1959) was about Waugh's friend, Father Knox, who was a priest and scholar and prolific essayist, satirist, and novelist.
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  Alec Waugh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Raban Waugh (Alec Waugh) (July 8, 1898 – September 3, 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh.
Waugh was born in London, and educated at Sherborne, a public school in Dorset.
Waugh is said to have invented the cocktail party when he was active in London social life in the 1920's.
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 Evelyn Waugh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in London, Waugh was the son of a noted editor and publisher, Arthur Waugh, and was brought up in middle class circumstances in London.
Waugh had at least two gay affairs during this time (this in addition to amours with other boys at Lancing), although whether they had a physical dimension is not clear, and he began to date women in the late 1920s.
Waugh's fame continued to grow between the wars, based on his satires of contemporary upper middle class English society, written in a prose which was both approachable and innovative.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evelyn_Waugh   (1921 words)

  
 Evelyn Waugh Collection
Waugh began writing and illustrating short stories at the age of four, and at the age of nine he and a group of friends produced a creative magazine for their Pistol Troop club.
Waugh was not a good leader, despite fearless action in the face of battle, and in 1943 he resigned from his Commando unit.
Of particular note are Waugh's illustrations for Decline and Fall, a bound volume of early drawings by John Wood and a sketchbook by Penelope and Ellen Parry.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/waugh.e.html   (1886 words)

  
 crime.co.nz
Waugh was asked for an explanation, which was considered unsatisfactory and in December 1996 he was cautioned and formally interviewed.
Waugh’s defence was that he had been careless and sloppy in his claims, but he denied criminal intent.
The Revered Richard Waugh, in comment to the media after the court case, was highly critical of the decision to prosecute his brother, describing it as ‘a fl day for police culture and leadership’.
www.crime.co.nz /c-files.asp?ID=238   (1497 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Cricket | The Ashes | Stellar duo shine together
Steve Waugh and Alec Stewart are batsmen with vastly different styles, but the two veterans have grown similar late in their careers.
Waugh is gritty, often eschewing the flashy shot in the name of safety and often considered the most prized wicket in the Test arena.
Waugh appears to have done enough to convince the selectors that he should tour the West Indies in April, and he has certainly done enough to impress his fellow veteran.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/cricket/the_ashes/2624719.stm   (652 words)

  
 Evelyn Waugh - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (October 28 1903 – April 10 1966) was an English satirical novelist, brother of Alec Waugh and father of Auberon Waugh.
At Oxford, he was known as much for his artwork as his writing, although he also threw himself into a vigorous social scene populated by both aesthetes and nobility, in which one of the vogues was queerness.
Waugh had at least two gay affairs during this time, (this in addition to amours with other boys at Lancing), before beginning to date women in the late 1920s.
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 Alec Waugh Biography and Summary
During a sixty-year career Alec Waugh wrote twenty-nine novels and an almost equal number of books of other kinds, including travel books, short-story collections, and autobiographies.
Alexander Raban Waugh(Alec Waugh) (July 8 1898 – September 3 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh.
Waugh was born in London, and educated at Sherborne, a public school in Dorset.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Waugh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Waugh's later writing was affected by his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Brideshead Revisited (1945), a serious novel probing the souls and fortunes of the Marchmains, a declining aristocratic family of Roman Catholics, is considered by many critics his finest work; it was made into a television series in 1981.
Waugh's experiences during World War II as a commando in the Mediterranean led to a satirical trilogy: Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and Unconditional Surrender (1962).
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 EVELYN WAUGH NEWSLETTER AND STUDIES Vol
Waugh was not engaging in serious critical debate; he was scribbling copy for the Daily Mail at the rate of £30 per 800-word column.
Unlike many editors since, Waugh understands that the Grossmiths had been careful to ensure that the dates of the entries were real dates in the 1888/9 calendar, and that they had maintained these dates even when they revised and extended the text in 1892.
Waugh surely identified particularly with the way Lupin is badly underestimated by his father, yet triumphs in the end.
www.lhup.edu /jwilson3/Newsletter_36.1.htm   (9958 words)

  
 Alec Waugh - TheBestLinks.com - Autobiography, July 8, Novelist, September 3, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Alec Waugh, Autobiography, July 8, Novelist, September 3, 1952, 1917, 1976...
Alexander Raban Waugh (Alec Waugh) (July 8 1898 - September 3 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh.
Waugh was born in London, England, and educated at Sherborne, a public school in Dorset.
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 LitWeb.net
His father was Arthur Waugh, a publisher and literary critic, and his brother was Alec Waugh, the popular novelist.
Waugh was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and at Hertford College, Oxford, where he read modern history and spent his time drinking and enjoying homosexual romances.
The posthumously published DIARIES OF EVELYN WAUGH (1976) have been described by Auberon Waugh as showing "that the world of Evelyn Waugh did, in fact exist." According to a literary anecdote the author Nancy Mitford had asked the him how he could behave so abominably and yet still consider himself a practicing Catholic.
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 Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Waugh burst upon the literary scene with a group of hilarious novels satirizing 20th-century life with savage and sophisticated wit; they include Decline and Fall (1928), Vile Bodies (1930), and A Handful of Dust (1934).
Though labeled an archconservative snob by some critics, Waugh was essentially a moralist who devoted himself to attacking social institutions and customs with impersonal scorn.
Waugh’s son, Auberon Alexander Waugh, 1939–2000, was a novelist, journalist, and critic known for his satiric wit, curmudgeonly attitudes, and sparkling prose.
www.bartleby.com /65/wa/Waugh-Ev.html   (487 words)

  
 Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
WAUGH, EVELYN ARTHUR ST. JOHN [Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John], 1903-66, English writer, considered the greatest satirist of his generation.
Waugh's older brother, Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was the author of numerous novels and travel books.
Waugh's son, Auberon Alexander Waugh, 1939-2000, was a novelist, journalist, and critic known for his satiric wit, curmudgeonly attitudes, and sparkling prose.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Waugh-E1v.asp   (750 words)

  
 Evelyn Waugh - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist.
Evelyn Waugh was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1930 and his biography of the Elizabethan Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1936.
Waugh said of his work: 'I regard writing not as investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
www.penguin.ca /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000033976,00.html   (369 words)

  
 The long arm of the kaftan by Steve Braunias | New Zealand Listener
At two in the afternoon on a Friday in downtown Wellington, he is a very easy figure to recognise: the lanky stride, the pink head, the faithful moustache now turned white – and though he is togged out in corduroy pants and a durable winter shirt, there remains about him the ghost of kaftans past.
Moodie is the lawyer for Lynne Snowdon, who has been trying to return to her job as a news editor at Radio New Zealand for the past 14 months; there have been five sets of mediation so far without a resolution to that long dispute.
"Alec Waugh's case, in itself, justified 10 years at university to do a doctorate and a first-class honours degree," he said.
www.listener.co.nz /printable,2557.sm   (1547 words)

  
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Besides suggesting new directions for the scholar and critic, the essay attempts to define Waugh's basic mental attitudes and, by extension, his basic vision, the techniques necessary to embody that vision successfully, and the rank, according to this standard, to which each of his novels should be assigned.
Alec's memoir of Evelyn concentrates on the years between January, 1922, and October, 1932, but it gives glimpses of Evelyn's childhood and, in the subsequent essay, "Arthur Waugh's Last Years," of his life during the war.
Alec's view that, had the marriage survived, Evelyn would have written merely fashionable comedies must be approached with some reservation, but it seems at least plausible.
www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk /EWN2-1.htm   (3424 words)

  
 NZOOM - ONE News - National   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The pair are accused of perverting the course of justice, in part of a six-year fight by Wanganui's former police chief Alec Waugh to clear his name and get his job back.
But Waugh claims he was pressured to admit those charges and an inquiry by a former high court judge last year found there had been a miscarriage of justice and the convictions were later overturned.
Waugh says he now wants his job back and has no choice but to take the matter back to court.
onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,167557-1-7,00.html   (293 words)

  
 Top Stories from NZCity
Alec Waugh says in the almost seven years since he was charged, he has been inundated with support, often from people who don't know him.
On the other hand, Mr Waugh says he is disappointed with the lack of support he got from most in the police.
Alec Waugh says he now wants to return to active duty.
home.nzcity.co.nz /news?id=37719&c=w   (226 words)

  
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Waugh turns to the camera and admits to “a far, far deeper hurt than I have ever felt before.” Through the Dean, Waugh seems to be mocking his own homosexuality and pain that had come from it, referring to his failed relationship with Richard Pares and failing relationship with Alastair Graham.
Waugh was, however, a Catholic with a clear comprehension of the fundamental orthodoxies to which a Catholic is obliged to subscribe.
For Waugh, it was this variety that admitted the opulence of Lady Marchmain as it recognised the sanctity of the ragged Indian.
www.lhup.edu /jwilson3/Newsletter_33.2.htm   (11269 words)

  
 NZ Police News : Alec Waugh back on payroll on "without prejudice" basis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Police have agreed to recommence salary payments of Alec Waugh on a "without prejudice" basis.
"However, given the judgment’s declaration that Mr Waugh remains a member of New Zealand Police there is a need to honour the ruling from a going forward point of view.
Mr Waugh will now take annual leave and the parties will meet again in January.
www.police.govt.nz /news/release/1193.php   (234 words)

  
 Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John, 1903–66, English writer, considered the greatest satirist of his generation.
Waugh burst upon the literary scene with a group of hilarious novels satirizing 20th-century life with savage and sophisticated wit; they include
(1961), display Waugh's customary ironic wit tempered by a mood of melancholic elegy and are among the finest fictional portrayals of the conflict.
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 ipedia.com: Evelyn Waugh Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (October 28 1903 - April 10 1966) was an English comic, satirical and tragic novelist.
Though in his late thirties and of poor eyesight, he was commissioned into the Royal Marines and found more suited for intelligence duties than that of a line officer.
He was the father of Auberon Waugh and brother of Alec Waugh.
www.ipedia.com /evelyn_waugh.html   (545 words)

  
 Union Square Journal: The Wine's the Thing
He sometimes gets mentioned as a sibling of the more famous Waugh brothers, Alec and Evelyn, and even though he was the right age to be the middle brother he apparently wasn't related, and came from humbler origins.
I first encountered Harry Waugh's writings in the 1970's when I was just getting into wines seriously and he was a regular contributor to the magazine of the wine lovers organization Les Amis Du Vin.
Here's a typical Harry Waugh dispatch, paraphrased extremely liberally, "For lunch we went to Chateau Margaux where we were served prime rib of beef along with their '47, '49, '53, '59, '61, and the '62.
www.unionsquarejournal.com /kornfeld_archive020602.htm   (3333 words)

  
 High Ranking Police Prosecutions
Disgraced former police superintendent Alec Waugh was working for disgraced former deputy speak Ian Revell at Parliament.
Mr Revell hired Mr Waugh as a researcher in his parliament office late last year to give him a second chance.
Following Mr Revell's resignation, Mr Waugh was given his notice and will lose his job if the next deputy speaker decides not to keep him on.
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 AllRefer.com - Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Collectively known as The Sword of Honour Trilogy, his three World War II novels, Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and The End of the Battle (1961), display Waugh's customary ironic wit, but tempered by a mood of melancholic elegy.
Though labeled an archconservative by some critics, Waugh was essentially a moralist who devoted himself to attacking social institutions and customs with impersonal scorn.
Waugh's older brother, Alec Waugh, 1898–1981, was the author of numerous novels and travel books.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Waugh-Ev.html   (590 words)

  
 NYPL, Alec Wilder Collection, 1939-2000
Description: Incoming letters to Alec Wilder from fifty-eight friends and acquaintances, including John Cheever, Harper Lee, S. Perelman, and Frank Sinatra; letters from Wilder to his friend and collaborator William Engvick; correspondence between Engvick and Wilder's biographer, Desmond Stone and James Dean's biographer, Val Holley and others; and printed matter concerning Wilder.
Alec Wilder's collaborator of many years, William Engvick, not only saved and gave to the New York Public Library his correspondence from Wilder, but was also primarily responsible for the preservation of the letters to Wilder that comprise Series 1 of this collection.
Additional Alec Wilder materials can be consulted in the Alec Wilder Archive, Ruth T. Watanabe Special Collections, Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York.
www.nypl.org /research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/wilder.html   (838 words)

  
 Alec Waugh Papers 1957-1964.
The letters are addressed to Miss Rubinstein, an accountant for Waugh's literary agent, A. Peters, who also did private typing for him on the side.
These letters are concerned with manuscripts he was sending her for that purpose.
Also included are the manuscripts for two of Waugh's essays.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/collections/html/4079620.html   (76 words)

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