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...The Academy, which was founded by Auberon Waugh, eldest son of writer Evelyn Waugh, aimed for “the dinner party with a till style”, says Mandana Ruane, the club’s former longtime manager, against the profit-maximising...
...These qualities feature in the set pieces of the great 20th-century party laureates — F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green....
...City Hall, designed by Norman Foster, looks as if Jules Verne was the design consultant. It is a bulbous glass universe, like a lopsided orb, and seems to melt on to the bank of the river....
...It is there in Evelyn Waugh’s Catholicism and Kingsley Amis’s funny, Godless brand of reaction....
...When Auberon Waugh was invited to write about his life, he sent letters to all and sundry asking if anyone knew what he’d been doing for the past 30 years....
...Waugh meant much more than the fact that Wodehouse’s characters are sexless. This is, of course, part of the magic recipe....
...Norman Sherry notes in the preface to his monumental biography: “A man who would write two versions of his diary is not a man who gives up his secrets easily.”...
...At 10 is Brideshead Revisited (1981), an 11-hour adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel....
...Evelyn Waugh packed a copy in his suitcase when he took what was to prove a marriage-breaking cruise with his wife....
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