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...Novel. Brideshead Revisited is a tragicomedy of Britain between World Wars I & II. Like its author's life, it opens with mockery, ends in religious dedication. Half of it glitters with wit, the other half is rigorously solemn. Some of the writing matches Waugh's best (and there is little better); some of it is equal to his worst (sample: ". . . at sunset I took formal possession of her as her lover. ... On the rough water ... I was made free of her narrow loins."). Those who believe that Author Waugh makes real sense only when he is writing apparent...
...apostrophiles seized their pens and rushed to the defense. The Times offered editorially to split the difference, ban the apostrophe in plurals like 1890s "whether our own proofroom is for us or against us." It added a thank-you-ma'am: after bowing for years under questions of solemn import, the world could well use some small controversies...
...funniest Falstaff in living recollection, and the best." The solemn Times intoned: "Great...
Washington, though it initiated next week's meeting of Big Three Foreign Ministers in Moscow, was especially solemn about the consequences of failure, especially chary of predicting success...
Virginia Gildersleeve was born and raised on Manhattan's 48th Street-just across from where Rockefeller Center now stands-but she summered in the country. She was a solemn, round-eyed child who seldom went to parties. Her playmates were a pet goat, a pony and a horse named Billy, and she stood no nonsense from them. Once the pony took the bit in his teeth and tried to run away with her. Virginia guided him through the half-open gate of a handy race track, and let him run around the track until his wind gave...