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Observing the national conventions this year did not offer Norman Mailer the physical perils or intellectual brinks he has relished in the past. That turns out to be a good thing. There is not nearly so much of what he calls his "ego liberation"-those warm-up exercises and public temperature takings that have long since turned into self-parody. Mailer can get right down to the business of sniffing out the true spirit of the occasion. The result is that St. George and the Godfather (much of which originally appeared in LIFE) is a very brisk report...
...church. At the British Museum reading room he soaks up religious history, anthropology and Simone Weil. Friends call to see if he is all right. He is. His dreams have revealed the neglected half of his existence-the part that was always larger than his politics or his personal ego. His life jumps into sharp focus. He sees that his son is fated to learn all the old lessons as if they were new. He gets the truth about himself and his old-guard comrades just right. "Once they had forecast Utopias; now they forecast calamity, failed to prevent calamity...
...characterized by several inter-relating "tendencies." First, things are perceived or known through the intellect, which is ordinarily mistaken for the mind itself. False identification of the intellect with the mind prohibits or hinders testing of hypotheses by direct experience, because the mind is so often equated with "ordinary, ego-centered waking consciousness." Straight thinking encourages the thinker to "be attached to the senses and through them to external reality." Sense-perception becomes computer input, and the mind equates that input--external reality--with all of reality, causing a "lapse into materialism" of the most pervasive kind. Finally, this ego...
...bemused, McGovern was also grateful for whatever enthusiasm the Kennedy radiance brought. McGovern Aide Frank Mankiewicz said coolly: "Nobody's ego is involved. If people want to vote for George McGovern because Ted Kennedy is for him, we won't object." Nor was it only Kennedy's star quality that made the difference. McGovern was cheered just as warmly and usually longer. Moreover, he began to get the feel of audience-tested lines. The most popular, repeated in litany: "Never again will we commit the precious young blood of this land to prop up a corrupt military...
...seen Norman cry and I've seen Bud kick a door because things weren't working," says one of their aides. "But they've never attacked each other." Why not? "We have no ego problem," says Yorkin. "We know that whatever either of us succeeds in doing is good for both, because it all goes in the same pot." The pot is growing bigger; what to do next is becoming a multimillion-dollar question. Indeed, what else is left for Yorkin and Lear now that they have given TV a new system of dating...