Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is what Mailer is--a litterateur, in the positive sense of the word. And he remains so even when he writes on subjects of topical interest. Mailer isn't revolutionizing journalism, any more than Harper's--the vehicle for his material--would relish being thought of as a revolutionary version of Time or Newsweek...
...latest Harper's piece, Mailer offers some constructive criticism to journalism by citing a newspaper account of a confrontation at the GOP National Convention between some Reagan Girls dressed in red, white and blue tights and a group of black demonstrators from the Poor People's March. "Were the Reagan Girls livid or triumphant?" he asks. "Were the Negro demonstrators dignified or raucous or self-satisfied?" Mailer's questions seem to the point. There is, as he says, "no history without nuance...
...BOGEY MAN by George Plimpton. 306 pages. Harper...
...current (November) issue of Harper's Mailer deals with himself and with politics brilliantly in a 90 page piece on the conventions, Miami Beach and Chicago, which could serve as a model for journalists who are wondering where to go now that the protection of objectivity has been stripped away...
What Mailer feels most of all is fear, first simply fear of being arrested or beaten and not being able to write his story to meet Harper's deadline. Then another layer is peeled off: And then with another fear, conservative was this fear, he [Mailer] looked into his reluctance to lose even the America he had had, that insane war-mongering technology with its smog, its super-highways, its experts and its profound dishonesty ... he was tired of hearing of Negro rights and Black power--every Black riot was washing him loose with the rest, pushing him to that...