Word: gores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witness whose glib and facile testimony best summed up the miscellaneous failings of television was Playwright Gore Vidal, who began on the familiar subject of TV taboos: "You can't discuss divorce or suicide, but sadism and murder are O.K." Vidal was the only witness to extend his indictment to public affairs shows, TV's one semi-sacred cow. There are "no controversial commentators any more," he pointed out. "Now you have these homogenized newscasters, men with no edges." He concluded: "Advertisers should not have the power to control TV. Let's face it, commercials not only...
DRAMA. The only survivors are the Pulitzer-prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, more or less how young Dr. Freud discovered psychoanalysis in three easy sessions; The Best Man, Gore Vidal's breathless but depthless dramatization of electoral politics; and A Taste of Honey, which mixes tenderness and bitterness in a raffish setting. Plus last season's The Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast...
...Yard, an additional wing was added to the side of Gore Hall, which stood on the present site of Widener Library and then housed most of the University's books...
...Ormsby-Gore will replace Career Diplomat Sir Harold Caccia, 55, who has been in the job nearly five years, and among other things was largely responsible for smoothing over Anglo-U.S. differences after Suez. Sir Harold will step up to Permanent Under Secretary of State, highest job attainable by a career diplomat...
...British Foreign Office, which never willingly misses a chance to turn personal friendships to diplomatic advantage, last week announced that come fall. David Ormsby-Gore will become Britain's Ambassador to the U.S. Scarcely a year younger than Kennedy. Ormsby-Gore had other qualities to recommend him. Although his record as Conservative Member of Parliament for eleven years' standing is not remarkable, he has shown skill and application in the field of diplomacy. He has been Britain's alternate delegate at the U.N. for the past 2½ years and its top negotiator at the Geneva nuclear...