Word: mailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mail to Stephen J. Mitby '99, an outspoken opponent of the resolution. It is funny because liberals traditionally pride themselves on tolerance of and respect for opposing on tolerance of and respect for opposing view-points and for a commitment to open-mindedness. It is scary because of the mailer's juvenile effort at intimidation and attempt to stifle free debate. Free speech, dialogue, and interchange in the "marketplace of ideas" are the very foundation of the liberal canon. What would John Stuart Mill have said? (My personal message to the not-so-intellectual hate-mailers, politics aside...
...very good copy; next to Ali he sounded sluggish and luggish. But in his looming silence, Foreman was supernally intimidating--the shadow of death, everyone said, in what would surely be Ali's last, humiliating battle. Before the fight, "Ali's dressing room was like a morgue," says Norman Mailer, who as always is a top cornerman of the intellect, a brilliant intuiter of other men's fear and resolve...
...King, Mailer and Plimpton stand out in the film's rich supporting cast. But two other characters hover above When We Were Kings like the Ghosts of Kinshasa Future: the Foreman and Ali of today. One became a preacher and found a rich comic voice that has finally made him an endearing figure in sports. The other is afflicted with Parkinson's syndrome, his grace palsied, his old raffish rhetoric muted. The King is a physical pauper now, and at his sight we age and ache. His mind, however, is not so impaired, nor is his taste for raillery...
...Oils, Fish Meal and The World Market for Bovine Meat, but I had never thought about the possibility of actually holding it in my hands. Once I discovered the right shelf, I opened up a volume from 1930s, and there was Hemingway; one from the 1960s, and there was Mailer. It was the literary history of the twentieth century, trussed up in a neat package from which some intrepid historiographer could make a book...
...book in question, which arrived in stores last week, is American Tragedy by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth, a TIME correspondent who covered the trial. Schiller is a colorful operator whose exploits include photographing Marilyn Monroe in the nude and providing Norman Mailer with the reporting about Gary Gilmore for The Executioner's Song. Schiller was the one who created and sold Simpson's sanctimonious, self-serving best seller, I Want to Tell You, and thereby raised money to pay Simpson's lawyers. With American Tragedy, he has produced quite a different book, a serious effort that describes the conduct...