Word: mailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious mistake with them. If he did something wrong, they being women would grow up around the mistake and somehow convert it to knowledge. But his sons! He had the feeling that because they were men, their egos were more fragile--a serious error might hurt them forever. --Norman Mailer, Armies of the Night...
...JOURNALIST seems to be more at ease in justifying his writing than Norman Mailer. Mailer shows us the event by showing us how he reacts to the event. This style of personal reporting cannot be applied to all journalism, of course, but it is at least the direction that journalism should move now that objectivity has been exposed at Chicago...
...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...
Like the university and most other non-governmental institutions in this country, the press is undergoing the turmoil of self-analysis. The result can be the hopelessness of Kraft or the joy of Mailer. In the prying loose, something very fine may appear--but only if the journalist remembers that he is a man with feelings (all the time, even on duty), and that those feelings are some of the most important things he can write about...