Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Points of View, by Somerset Maugham. The party is old, but the guests still sit entranced by a master conversationalist...
...Harry Truman's 75th birthday (see PEOPLE), Lyndon landed carefully. Massachusetts, after all, is the nesting ground of a formidable front runner named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Senator Kennedy met his majority leader at Boston's airport, later introduced him to 800 diners in the cream and gold Somerset Hotel ballroom, cagily saw him out of town again. Before the homefolk Jack took only one good-humored peck at Lyndon : "Some people refer to Senator Johnson as the next President of the United States, but I see no reason why he should take a demotion." Smiling broadly, Johnson bandied...
Points of View, by Somerset Maugham. Five essays in the tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. Five civilized conversational essays, another "absolutely last" book by the Old Party, in the engaging tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
What happens to very old writers when they stop writing? In the case of W. Somerset Maugham, now 85, he just goes right on writing. Over the past ten years he has regularly announced his retirement, and now he once more informs the world that his new book, Points of View, is "absolutely my last." A few critics will hope he means it; in longhair circles the old storyteller has almost never been ranked above a sound literary carpenter. Yet few professional writers can honestly say that they do not envy his easy style, his civilized yarner's gift...