Word: gores
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JULIAN by Gore Vidal. 503 pages. Little, Brown...
...vast amount of construction in the years 1912-1914. Widener Library ways built and provided a place for the bulk of the university's collection, dispensing with the scattered departmental libraries that had existed previously. Coolidge, Gibbs and Cruft Libraries were built to house the Physics and Chemistry Departments. Gore and Standish halls--now part of Winthrop House--sprung up along the river housing freshmen. The MTA was completed in 1912 and was welcomed by undergrads because it made travel to Boston easier. The Larz Anderson Bridge, completed in 1913, made it much easier to get to football games...
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...often when a good book or play becomes a movie, the script writers fail to see that they have good things in front of their noses; passionate (and pointless) adaptation turned such solid novels as Exodus and Advise and Consent into mediocre cinema. Fortunately, the men who took Gore Vidal's recent hit play The Best Man and made it into a movie had the sense to leave well enough alone. As a result, they have put together a terrific film...
...Hollywood, "adaptation" usually means adding excitement and sex. Gore Vidal's story of a contest for the presidential nomination at a national political convention had plenty of excitement to begin with and sufficient sex to keep the plot thickened during all of the balloting. The contestants are easily recognized types, obviously modeled on contemporary political figures. Russell (Henry Fonda) is a Harvard man, an intellectual, and Secretary of State. Unlike most people around him he has principles: he wants to wage a scrupulously honest campaign for the nomination...