Word: maughamism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation's most gifted poets. After two years in cramped quarters (one room)-young Russians' commonest cause for divorce-they parted in 1959. Since 1960, Zhenya has been married to a poised, handsome brunette named Galya, who is two years his senior and an able translator (Maugham, Salinger...
Slated to go on the auction block at London's Sotheby's in April were 34 impressionist and post-impressionist paintings (among the best known: Picasso's Death of a Harlequin) from the collection of Multimillionaire Storyteller Somerset Maugham, 88. Anticipated proceeds: upwards of $1,400,000, which, along with most of the rest of his estate, Maugham has earmarked for Britain's Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers to spare "needy authors from doing hack work...
Alarmed by the mounting wave of art thefts on both sides of the Atlantic, Novelist Somerset Maugham, 87, moved his collection of 46 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings out of his Riviera villa and into a Marseilles bank vault for the duration of a scheduled visit to Lon . Sighed Maugham's Man Friday, Secretary Alan Searle: "Art has become more of an anxiety than a pleasure...
Though his longtime friend and Man Friday Allan Searle reported him "not at all well," Somerset Maugham, 87, was, when up to it, honing the razor's edge of his autobiography. Maugham, who has written more "absolutely last" works than many another author has produced in a lifetime, had originally earmarked the autobiography for posthumous publication, but found himself bloodying so many colleagues that he has gamely decided to hustle it out as soon as possible. "If the autobiography is published after his death," explained Searle, "they might well pull him out of his grave...
Died. Pola Gauguin, 77, last survivor of the impassioned postimpressionist's five legitimate children (at least one illegitimate child still lives in Tahiti), better known for a Maugham-correcting biography of his defecting pere (My Father, Paul Gauguin) than for his Scandinavian art criticism, architecture and painting; of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...