Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barrage of buffets and catered meals came at the traditional three times per diem in Lowell, the Union, the Block-house, Mem Hall, the Harvard Club, and the Hotel Somerset with the diet ranging from Dublin stew to roast beef. The food never ran out although at times fraudulent reunions and uninvited guests almost outnumbered the genuine articles. Led by hopeful Olympic oarsmen, a horde of disguised undergraduates lunched Tuesday on seafood Newburgh at Lowell...
...first is a collection of short stories which won the ?500 Somerset Maugham Award in England. Under the terms laid down by Donor Maugham, the British government permits the winner to spend his prize money in foreign travel - and that privilege, in currency-tight England, is a prize in itself. Novelist Evelyn Waugh acidly predicted that "elderly" writers would compete even if it meant "forging of birth certificates, dyeing of whiskers and lifting of faces. To what parodies of experimental styles will we not push our experienced pens...
Harvard may have no football coach, but a pilot lack has not kept the Crimson line-up from doing a little off-season scrimmaging. Chip Gannon, 180-pound wingback, muscled his way onto the floor of the Hotel Somerset's Balinese Room Thursday night and into the arms of Betty Anne Grove, 100-pound chanteuse...
...Saturday Review of Literature for a list of her current reading. Besides the collected poems of Robinson Jeffers, Actress Anderson, who plays eight hard shows a week, listed one current novel, a couple of biographies, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, the collected works of Charles Dickens, the collected works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce's Ulysses, the Bible...
...Novelist Somerset Maugham was not the first barker to cry that literature is nothing if not entertainment. Book clubs had already promised that Plato could be fun, and that classics were racy and could be read on the run. Were the Best Books as easy as all that? Not so, said a group of prominent U.S. writers, professors and college presidents, in a report out last week-by no means. The road to understanding great literature is rocky, but worth it, said the Commission on Liberal Education* of the Association of American Colleges...