Word: gores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KALKI by Gore Vidal...
...Gore Vidal cannot wait. His latest novel is an apocalyptical extravaganza that craftily combines feminism, homosexuality, mysticism, science fiction, fiction science, the second law of thermodynamics, the first law of survival, high fashion and low animal cunning. The plot is diabolically clever. Theodora (Teddy) Ottinger, the world's leading female pilot and bisexual author of the bestselling Beyond Motherhood, stumbles into the service of Jim Kelly, a golden-haired Viet Nam vet who fancies himself Kalki, the Hindu god whose job it is to ring down the curtain on the material universe. Teddy needs the money; she is behind...
Winthrop House residents released their exam period frustrations in a Gore-Standish snowball fight...
This book is a somewhat patronizing but generally fair examination of a topic that notably agitates otherwise calm people. It would certainly help the popular reputation of traditional therapists if they presented their findings in such a lucid fashion as the author of Psychobabble. Rosen quotes Gore Vidal that "most of our writers tend to be recorders," yet he himself could never be mistaken for one of that dreary band. Unlike the psychobabblers he decries, he doesn't practice what Jacoby called (and Rosen recalled) "the monotonous discovery of common sense." Instead, he reminds us, skeptically but never petuiantly, that...
...contemporary figures can lead to endless second-guessing. Why is Joe Namath given ten lines of biography, while only seven are accorded to the late Vladimir Nabokov? Why Walter Cronkite but not David Brinkley? If Capote rates an entry, why not Vidal? Such quibbles will depend on whose Gore is being axed. Still, the book changes browsers into learners. Whatever its flaws, the R.H.E. is a welcome invitation not only to the mind's eye but also to the eye's mind...