Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Climb Up to Hell, by Jack Olsen. The north face of Switzerland's Eiger (Ogre) Mountain is perhaps the most suicidal climb in the Alps, and the author's account of four ill-equipped men who tried to climb it in 1957 is thoughtful and exciting...
...Dream of Evil. As skillfully as he describes the horrors of the mountain, Olsen conveys the hell within Corti. Alone on his ledge, Corti cursed the planes that buzzed uselessly by. After his rescue, he murmured gratefully, "How beautiful the sun is." But in the next breath, to his rescuers' dismay, he boasted exultantly that he had conquered the Eiger. Later, he was pilloried in the press and charged with deserting Longhi to save himself. When he was finally vindicated, he swore that he would attempt the mountain once again. "I dream about it all the time, that evil...
...Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.).* PREMIIÈRE of a new series about mountain folk alivin' in Los Angeles...
With that belief established, Wescott lavishes high praise on the storytelling insights of Somerset Maugham and cheerfully states that Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain would be improved by pruning 300 pages of extraneous erudition out of it. Wescott's main critical contribution, however, is his experienced literary sightseer's infectious enthusiasm. "Let me not bully you about this novel that I love," he says engagingly of Christmas Holiday, a little-known book of Maugham's that he thinks is the best novel ever written about Europe just before World War II. His account...
...American position is one of indecision, if not fearfulness," said the Omaha World-Herald. "It is one thing to proceed carefully," wrote Robert Spivack in the Herald Tribune. "It is something else to proceed 'cautiously' while the enemy is proceeding boldly." Denver's Rocky Mountain News insisted that "something has got to be done about Cuba and it had better be soon." Arthur Krock proposed naval patrols, David Lawrence called for 1) a total blockade and 2) severance of diplomatic relations with Russia. Such actions, he conceded, "could lead to some fighting." The New York Daily News...