Word: vidal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attractive, hardcover volumes, to choose, from an unlimited field of candidates, the 100 best novels written in English since 1900. No big deal--especially since the board is made up of respectable thinkers and writers including Daniel J. Boorstin, A.S. Byatt, Shelby Foote, Edmund Morris, William Styron and Gore Vidal...
Calvino does his best to avoid these traps and usually succeeds. I am pleased to note, for example, that Pin learns nothing in the course of the novel. In writing about Calvino upon his death in 1985, Gore Vidal said, "He looks; he describes; he has a scientist's respect for data (the opposite of the surrealist or fantasist)." He is here absolutely right; nothing that happens is unbelievable (although a prison escape strains credulity), but it is all quite weird and foreign to a life lived outside of wartime...
...Modern Library's list was compiled by an advisory committee of scholars and publishers, including historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, author William Styron, Modern Library board chair Christopher B. Cerf '63 and historian Gore Vidal...
Sixteen years later, the rule still held. In The Best Man, a 1964 adaptation of Gore Vidal's play, Henry Fonda is the thoughtful but philandering candidate whose main rival is the unscrupulous Cliff Robertson. At the party convention, Robertson digs up some dirt on Fonda and uses it. Fonda gets some on Robertson but doesn't use it, proving he's the best man, even if not the best husband, but ending his chance at the nomination. He manages to thwart Robertson by other means. With both flawed men out of the running, the Oval Office remains...
...your comment in the Buckley-Vidal story: George Sanders didn't divorce me, I divorced him. ZSA ZSA GABOR Washington...