Word: gores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, adapted by Gore Vidal...
Goodyear Television Playhouse presented the satire: young (29) Novelist Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet. The small planet is the earth. The visit is made on an impulse by a cultivated space traveler named Kreton. He taxies his flying saucer from a distant galaxy somewhere in outer space right onto the rose-bed of an American family...
...hotel bars. He has also looked over the published authorities - one of his characters quotes whole pages from Negley Farson's Last Chance in Africa. Every thing that he reports may well have happened. But the real tragedy of black-white fratricide in Africa is hopelessly drowned in gore. Something of Value is a novel without taste or distinction...
First reactions to the plan were good. It looked as if the Administration would endorse it, and even pro-TVA Senators were giving their grudging support simply because it would provide the agency with funds for expansion. Said Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore, top congressional defender of TVA: "In the end our choice may . . . be between something not so good and no expansion." Said the pro-TVA Memphis Press-Scimitar: "TVA has come up with what we believe are good suggestions for financing its own expansion . . . We hope that. . . Congress will permit TVA to sit on its own financial...
Long-term planning has always failed in the past. Gore Hall was supposed to last for sixty years, and was full in twenty. Widener was to house the central collection for fifty years, and was full in 25. Today's planning is perhaps more realistic and Metcalf has held down acquisitions for 18 years. One of Buck's problems will be to continue this effort. Metcalf has devised a four way censure to crowding the central collection. When he arrived in 1937, there was room for three years growth. Since then he has realized an undergraduate library, a rare book...