Word: mailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were arrested and taken to the workhouse, in the rolling Virginia hills, all but a few dozen were quickly released with suspended sentences. Novelist Norman Mailer was fined $50 and sentenced to 30 days with 25 suspended, then freed pending an appeal. There were 47 injuries, including 24 to demonstrators; notwithstanding the rumors of bayonetings and executions, the most serious casualty was a demonstrator's broken...
...someone thinks norma mailer is more important than hank williams, that's fine. I have no arguments an i never drink milk. i would rather model harmonica holders than discuss aztec anthropology...
...Opposites and irreconcilables are connected to one another like pepper sprinkled on ice cream," writes Norman Mailer. "Only a palate close...
...full of crap as I am." When hecklers mustered the temerity to shout "Publicity hound!" at him, Mailer managed to pronounce flawlessly his all-purpose noun, verb and expletive...
Dwight Macdonald, the bearded literary critic, was aghast at the barroom bathos, but failed to argue Mailer off the platform. Macdonald eventually squeezed in the valorous observation that Ho Chi Minh was really no better than Dean Rusk. After more obscenities, Mailer introduced Poet Robert Lowell, who got annoyed at requests to speak louder. "I'll bellow, but it won't do any good," he said, and proceeded to read from Lord Weary's Castle. By the time the action shifted to the Pentagon, Mailer was perky enough to get himself arrested by two marshals. "I transgressed...