Word: gored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entertainment was a filibuster, staged not by Deep Southerners−the most frequent filibusterers of recent years−but by liberal Democrats, notably Oregon's Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuberger, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Albert Gore, Texas' Ralph Yarborough. Some of them, over the years, had conspicuously denounced Southern filibusters against civil rights measures. Ex-Republican Morse (he quit the G.O.P. in the midst of the 1952 campaign) once called filibustering a "disgraceful and contemptible procedure," and has been one of the Senate's most vociferous advocates of rule changes to shut off filibusters, even...
...Hebron church, Moses hangs from a cross on the hill above. After two nights of agony, he dies with the dawn. His despairing last words: "God is white after all ... God is white!" This thickly peopled first novel, an arresting blend of hurt and humor, peasant piety and patriotic gore, goes far beyond the common run of Caribbean books. Author Sylvia Wynter, 34, was born in Cuba of Jamaican parents, educated in Jamaica, Britain and Spain, now lives with her husband, Novelist Jan (Black Midas) Carew, in British Guiana. Author Wynter complements the simple faith of her Jamaicans with their...
Rocking the Boat, by Gore Vidal. The playwright does not always give his best effort to these impudent essays on politics and literature, but his boat rocking, though not dangerously violent, is worth being on hand...
Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. An examination of Civil War writers, some good, some indifferent, but all wounded spiritually...
...Vidal shows exceptional promise in a new literary line. His reviews and essays do not, of course, rock the boat enough to alarm the passengers. But to politics, for instance, Vidal brings the useful viewpoint of a fascinated outsider-insider (he is the grandson of the late Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator from 1907 to 1937, and in 1960 he himself ran for Congress as a Democrat in a Republican upstate New York district). He observes that since F.D.R. set the fashion, all U.S. politicians must grin constantly in public; he recalls having a thoughtful conversation with Harry...