Word: mailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unread books. At the wall's foundation are the Pickwick Papers, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, Plato's Dialogues, Henry James, Boswell's Johnson, and countless other classics. At eye level are Paul Tillich and Samuel Eliot Morison, Barbara Tuchman and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, O'Hara, Mailer, Roth, Updike and Gunter Grass. "The multitude of books," as Voltaire observed, "is making us ignorant." Voltaire should be alive today...
...Tuama stressed that the type of modern novelist--such as James Baldwin, Andre Gide, or Norman Mailer--who is considered immoral by the moralist element of society really "leading the struggle against conformity in sexual and social norms...
Your recent coverage of the summer teach-in and Donald Riegle's letter of June 19th both reveal significant issues clouding the future impact of such events. One cannot help but believe that if the recent Norman Mailer performance is typical the teach-in movement has ceased to be constructive and has become instead just a particularly well-organized adolescent rebellion against the harsh realities of one phase of adult life...
After reading the account in the Harvard Summer News of the most recent "teach-in." I wish to commend its sponsors. Truly profound thought was required to select mediocre burlesque comic Norman Mailer as a participant. Probably no other speaker could better garbage mouth the president of the United States, and in so doing, totally demean the stature of a Harvard forum. Was Mr. Mailer's diatribe necessary to insure "full academic freedom," "scholarly inquiry," or "full discussion of the issues...
...Mailer's comments, and those of his fellow speakers, added nothing to the search for a resolution of the Vietnam conflict. Rather, in Mr. Mailer's case, we were left with nothing more than the verbal residue of a polluted mind...