Word: kingsley
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...focal point-one can hardly say hero-of this phantasmagoria is a movie director named Norman T. Kingsley (played by Mailer), who is also a candidate for the presidency of the U.S. While a shadow cabinet of kingmakers sits in his house discussing his future, Kingsley is out on the lawn auditioning young actresses for a new movie. Parts of that film-conceived of as a kind of satire on Belle de Jour in which men run a brothel catering to perverse women customers-becomes a movie within Maidstone. It is, indeed, often impossible to discern which...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829 (Stoughton 31) tell Horatio Alger 1860 (Holworthy 7) and William Randolph Hearst 1885 (Matthews 46) about the time he played a trick on Wendell Phillips 1831 (Holworthy 24). Not listening are Rush and Pete Seeger '36 (Harvard Union) who are trading songs, and Norman Kingsley Mailer '43 (Grays 11) who sits in a corner writing about...
...tried to describe another aspect of the African woman's traditional role. "She is a goddess because she founds society. Her breasts are more of a motherly symbol than a sexual one. She is the power behind man." Mrs. Sutherland carefully recited the words of English Explorer Mary Kingsley, who once wrote: "The old woman you may see crouching behind the chief, or whom you may not see at all but who is with him all the same, is saying, 'Do not listen to the white men, it is bad for you.' " Added Mrs. Sutherland: "That...
...GREEN MAN by Kingsley Amis. 252 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
After a decade writing what he calls "the more or less straight novel," Kingsley Amis migrated a few years ago toward science fiction (The Anti-Death League) and the James Bond spy thriller (Colonel Sun), written under the pseudonym of Robert Markham. Now, in The Green Man, he has drifted into the ghost story. What is Amis...