Word: mailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often outright hostility-of many fellow liberals. Walter Lippmann endorsed Richard Nixon, arguing that the Republican is a "maturer and mellower man" than he used to be and that the Democrats need a period of "rest and recuperation." Murray Kempton wrote that the Democrats "deserve to lose." Novelist Norman Mailer concluded that Nixon might not be all that bad (see THE PRESS). Michigan's New Democratic Coalition refused to endorse the party ticket. California's Young Democrats voted not "to even begin to consider" supporting Humphrey unless he agrees to meet six demands, including a pledge of immediate...
...sensitivity. Only the Observer, Morris says, ever bothered to show any interest "in the last words of a 17-year-old rapist on death row, or in the terror of a seven-year-old Negro child in an adult ward for the mentally ill, or in what Norman Mailer said or did not say to the college students in Austin." Unabashedly liberal and outspoken, the weekly was often exasperating, sometimes wrong, never humdrum or stale...
...report on capital punishment and two more Capote teleplays. In news, CBS and NBC will pioneer prime-time shows with a magazine format. CBS's 60 Minutes, to be seen on alternate Tuesdays, will widen the TV news spectrum to include the arts. Among the "guest columnists": Norman Mailer, Bishop Fulton Sheen and British Critic Kenneth Tynan. NBC's First Tuesday, a monthly two-hour program starting in January, will stress aggressive investigative reporting. The goal, says NBC News Vice President Richard Wald, is "insight, not just the slam-bang of things...
Unmolested and little heard from all week was another novelist-turned-journalist, Norman Mailer, who was in town for Harper's. At the Grant Park rally, Mailer explained his uncharacteristic silence. "I'm a little sick about all this and also a little mad, but I've got a deadline on a long piece and I'm not going to go out and march and get arrested. I just came here to salute...
...Trib also ran a description of the convention as it might have been written by Norman Mailer, who was covering the event for Harper's. "Mailer," began the Tribune in the third-person style of the author's The Armies of the Night, "came to Miami Beach with a great sense of Dread. He saw John Lindsay right away and that gave him a sharper sense of guilt because his article had elected Lindsay mayor in 1965, and Lindsay had turned out to be an adequate square. He had no existential dimension. By then it was time...