Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston's handsome Hotel Somerset has a large number of public rooms, and every election night these halls are occupied by confident politicians and their friends and workers. This year was no different...
...admirably most of the time, but has a tendency to mix, or imperfectly finish its conventions. The third act opening (where the play stops because seven of the company are struck with botulism) is magnificent and hilarious because the whole company, especially Beck and Jamie Rosenthal (playing a Miss Somerset playing Sabina, George Antrobus' maid and quondam mistress) degenerates from high flown symbols to grumbling Loebies. The switch is drastic and devastating...
...attorney general, a canny state politician who in 1962 masterminded William Scranton's successful gubernatorial campaign, and recently developed his own political ambitions as a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor next fall; in the crash of a Piper Aztec (along with his wife); in the Allegheny Mountains near Somerset, Pa. Whereupon Scranton and top state Republicans urged party members to vote for Alessandroni anyway in this week's primary in order to defeat his opponent, Goldwaterite Blair F. Gunther, which would enable Scranton to name a replacement...
...SOMERSET AND ALL THE MAUGHAMS by Robin Maugham. 270 pages. New American Library...
...been a horrible and evil man," said Somerset Maugham, past 91 and dying at a pace he found painfully slow. "Every one of the few people who have ever got to know me well has ended up by hating me." Then, as if to prove it, he would sit muttering angrily to himself, or fly into sudden rages at his guests. From the wrinkled nonagenarian mouth came the vilest obscenities, and he agonized over the mistakes in his life. "My greatest one was this. I tried to persuade myself that I was three-quarters normal and that only a quarter...