Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if the spectacle of politics coming to grips with pathology is not pretty, who can deny that when 11-year-olds like Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer kill or when a 14-year-old drives nails into the heels of a younger boy -- a recent episode from Somerset, Pennsylvania -- there is good reason to be unnerved? A breeding ground of poverty and broken families and drugs and guns and violence, real or just pictured, has brought forth a violent generation. "We need to throw out our entire juvenile-justice system," says Gil Garcetti, the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, whose...
...enemies were ignorance and prejudice, his own and other people's: he met transcriptionists who would run away so as not to have to type up his examinations of gay patients, and dentists who would refuse to see unmarried men. In the tradition of the best doctor-writers, from Somerset Maugham to Ethan Canin, Verghese took it all down with a fine mix of compassion and precision, understanding not only why men suffer but how they feel...
...ILLUSION THAT YOUTH IS happy," said W. Somerset Maugham. "An illusion of those who have lost it." That illusion has been fading especially fast in one of the most prosperous and conservative corners of the country, home to the fantasy capital of America, Disneyland, and to a host of quieter fantasies as well. For residents of Orange County, California, the most perishable myth would seem to be that honor students, computer geniuses and star athletes would make headlines only for their remarkable achievements, never for their ruthless crimes...
...number of international prizes, including the Somerset Maugham Award for Metroland (published in 1980) as well as the French Prix Medicis. His name is invoked in hushed reverential tones whenever there is speculation about candidates for the Booker Prize (Britain's prestigious literary award). He acknowledges that he is not writing for the average library borrower (or one suspects the little old lady from Dubuque), yet his work is not inaccessible...
...member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Somerset Club, the Country Club of Brookline and the Vine Book Hunt Club. He was also a fellow of the American Numismatic Society and an honorary trustee of the New England Historic Genealogical Society...