Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early in The Moon and Sixpence, William Somerset Maugham wrote, "Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era in which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy." Maugham was 45 when that novel was published in 1919; he had another 46 years ahead of him. But even a novelist of his energy could not have imagined a life that began with Victoria on the throne and ended with the crowning of the Beatles...
...romanticism with nightmarish surrealism, as attempts to "paraphrase the intellectual and emotional essence of reality." Although a rendering of Sir Winston Churchill at 80 was publicly reviled by its subject ("It makes me look half-witted, which I ain't"), it was Sutherland's portraits of W. Somerset Maugham, Helena Rubinstein and other notables that brought him his greatest fame...