Word: gored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROCKING THE BOAT [300 pp.)-Gore Vidal-Little, Brown...
With the publication of this wistfully titled collection of literary and political essays, Gore Vidal must be acknowledged the nation's foremost boy of letters. The office is an honorable one, having been held previously by Truman Capote, Scott...
Patriotic "Gore, by Edmund Wilson. A look at Civil War writing becomes that rarity-a fresh and unsentimental centennial tribute...
...Examiner, the week was both grim and racy. It was a week of murder, suicide, kidnaping, drowning, robbery, accident, divorce-an ordinary week. The Herald-Examiner's 40 reporters had once again discovered man's plight and told of it with inky excitement and a taste of gore. Then, in the din and jangle of their city room, they had submitted their findings to City Editor Agness ("Aggie") Underwood, who at 59 ranks unrivaled as the Ma Parker of American journalism...
Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. Northerners and Southerners are treated with equal insight and compassion in this vast exploration of Civil War writings...