Word: maughams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YEARS ago, when William Somerset Maugham was a young man of 64, he turned his thoughts to a subject of considerable importance to him: a fitting end to his own story. "Having held a certain place in the world for a long time," Maugham wrote in The Summing Up, "I am content that others soon should occupy it. When nothing can be added without spoiling the design the artist leaves...
...long in coming: 27 years. The design was spoiled and it sorely strained the patience of the man who was dedicated to the idea that a well-constructed narrative should draw to a swift and orderly close. At his seaside villa on Cap Ferrat, going deaf and blind, Maugham complained bitterly at the way time's slow hand was writing his last chapter. "I am sick of this way of life," he said. "I want to die." Earlier this month, he sank into a coma following a stroke. The 91-year-old heart beat six days longer...
...century. This year alone, some 2,000,000 copies of his books will be added to the 80 million already in print. The Razor's Edge has sold more than 5,000,000 copies since its appearance in 1944. Of Human Bondage, published in 1915 when Maugham was 41, has entered literature courses and has been adapted three times to film. At least two Maugham characters-Mildred Rogers in Bondage and Sadie Thompson in Rain-belong to that distinctive fictional company that the world will not forget...
...works, the new quarters allow a historical layout of period rooms, include an education department, a 200-seat auditorium, a junior museum and a 2,500-volume art library. For the new sculpture court, Sir Jacob Epstein's widow gave six of his busts, including one of Somerset Maugham. Soon the Far Eastern gallery will put on display a distinguished collection of Han-dynasty pottery, on extended loan. Donald DeCoursey Harrington, a gas and oil investor living in Texas, has donated 47 paintings from Boudin to Vuillard that make the museum's survey of French art its most...
...illustrious line of British colonial fiction may have arrived at parade's end with this trilogy of short novels about the last days of British rule in Malaya; Britain has no place to send another Kipling, Maugham, Forster, Greene or Waugh. Author Burgess' witness to the waning of the imperial day is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial prep school solemnly modeled by its British founders after Eton and Harrow (Burgess himself served for three years as an education officer in Malaya). Bemusedly, Crabbe sees that the system is crumbling, but the snobbery is not. Malays hate...