Word: maughamism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Story of Love (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Jane Fonda in Somerset Maugham's A String of Beads. Color...
After long basking on the French Riviera, Somerset Maugham returned to London for a ten-week chill in Britain's foggy-foggy autumnal dews. At 86, Author Maugham is possibly as acidly opinionated as ever in his life. He himself never published anything that was censorably naughty, and he apparently has no patience with those who do, or did. Said he of Lady Chatterley's Lover: "Rather boring. As for the scatological parts, they didn't tell me anything I didn't know before." Of Lolita: "I read the first 74 pages. Then...
...does not. College instructors should perhaps prescribe the book as esthetic therapy. Not that even today's sophomores are likely to lose their critical faculties over a ghost of the '30s like Clifford Odets; nor. as E. B. White proves in a one-page version of Somerset Maugham, is the jejune quality of the Old Party's dinner-jacketed one-upmanship likely to delude the young. The wonder is, Twentieth Century Parody suggests, that there has been so much style in the last 60 years to be worth parodying...
Forthright and articulate about art, reticent about himself, Russian-born Painter Marc Chagall, 72, long a French resident, arrives in the U.S. to get an honorary doctor's degree next week at Brandeis University. Sounding somehow like a Somerset Maugham character, he told a Manhattan newswoman: "When one is young, one thinks of a goal in art. One talks. One reacts-as I did against cubism. But when one is older, one does what one does. One doesn't talk." Why does he still paint things reminiscent of his native city of Vitebsk, a good half-century after...
...alarm signals about leprosy were getting no results. Dr. Donohugh decided to throw his Navy training to the winds. Instead of proceeding only through channels, he labeled his charges "for wider dissemination" and slipped a copy to a newsman. What happened after that would have been grist for Somerset Maugham to grind out a sequel to Rain...