Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CIRCLE. Rex Harrison, 81, gives an elegantly understated turn in Somerset Maugham's beguiling Broadway comedy of marital scandal and autumnal passion. Stewart Granger and Glynis Johns co-star...
...surprise, then, that it was here in Pago Pago that Somerset Maugham set his famous confrontation between the missionary and Sadie Thompson. Or that discussions of Samoa's moral -- and cultural -- identity continue as heatedly as the much publicized debate between Margaret Mead's classic vision of pastoral innocence (Coming of Age in Samoa) and Derek Freeman's revisionist account of violence and rape (Margaret Mead and Samoa -- The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth). "Being bilingual and bicultural doesn't mean you have to be schizophrenic," says Bernie Oordt, who taught at a local high school for twelve...
Danbury is followed by other New York exurbs: central New Jersey's Middlesex, Hunterdon and Somerset counties; Norwalk, Conn.; and Long Island. Then come San Francisco; Nashua, N.H.; Los Angeles-Long Beach; Orange County, Calif.; Boston; and Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey. At the bottom of the list: Jackson, Mich., and Atlantic City...
Gauguin is a legendary figure, with all the accretions that entails. His legend was helped by other people's fictions, though Gauguin's own existential posturings as hero, Christ-martyr, magus, savage and artist-criminal lay at its root. For many, the hero of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence is still the "real" Gauguin -- a stockbroker and Sunday painter who cracks out of the bourgeois egg, dumps his wife, family and career and hightails it to Tahiti to "find himself" among the breasts and breadfruit. He is part brute and part escape artist, the Houdini of the avant...
Although it has not been awarded for many years, the scholarship has not been abolished, says Schkolnick, and constitutes a continuing tie. But Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, a member of the all-male Somerset Club located in Boston, says the stipulations of many Harvard scholarships would not be accepted by the University today, although they were not considered to be offensive when they were accepted...