Word: mailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of the Johnson years until a tangled legal dispute between Basic Books, Simon & Schuster and the authors caused Goodwin to drop out of the project last June. They were wished better luck in their new joint venture by 175 guests including Senator Ted Kennedy, Writer Norman Mailer and Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "It's a pity my wife isn't here," observed Schlesinger after the crowded ceremony in the Goodwins' home. "She is two feet taller than I am and could have seen...
...ring, to its final number in 1971, depicting the preWatergate Nixon White House, Look chronicled and celebrated a generation of American life. Novelist-Humorist Leo Rosten, who was once chief editorial adviser to Look, has pored through back issues to compile this souvenir album. Articles by Norman Mailer, Harry Truman, Eugene O'Neill and others do not stand the test of age. But the powerful pictures of '40s war, '50s politics and '60s frenzy more than compensate for shortcomings in the text...
...Gochman are so charming however that their hardest blow is gentlest satire. There is a visit to Cold Cash, New York's First Passionate Bank, and a chat with an ancient on a park bench who used to bet with his late wife - "Whoever goes first loses." Norman Mailer crosses the Hud son as the city-nation of N.Y.C.'s first President while a jubilant citizen shouts, "We're recognized by Israel!" The evening's finest gig is a wild flamenco in honor of the native delicatessen: "Out-of-town baloneys/ Are made of horse...
About 170 people attended the wedding, including Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and Norman Mailer...
...When John Kennedy was [long pause, eyes lowered] taken from us, Norman Mailer wrote something that I have never forgotten and that went something like this [voice hushed]: Tor a while the country was ours. [Pause.] Now they've taken it away from us.' [Long pause, voice very low.] With your help, I want to take it back again...