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...graceless to complain at this stage (his 41st year, his 19th book) about a writer as gifted and giving as John Updike. He has produced a body of writing whose size and consistent high quality are unapproached by the work of any American writer near his age, except Norman Mailer. It is hard to imagine how John Updike could have managed the business of being John Updike any more faithfully...
...fiction-writers are the most popular entertainers and wound-healers, and the Yard has a great selection. At opposite poles of the contemporary spectrum, we have tastefully conservative John Updike '54 in Hollis 11, and Left Conservative Norman Mailer '43 in Grays 11, James Agee '32, now undergoing one of the most sustained revivals of any American author, made his freshman way in Thayer 45. He had considerable inspiration from previous Thayerites. Both leftist-turned-National Reviewer John Dos Passos '16 and poet E. E. Cummings '15 left literary residue from their freshmen years in Thayer...
...every recent national convention, literary superstars were on hand to gather impressions, mostly for publication later in magazines. Norman Mailer refused to tell anyone what he thought of the proceedings for fear of compromising a forthcoming article in LIFE. Novelist William Styron and Playwright Arthur Miller, on assignment from Esquire, agreed that Miami Beach '72 would be harder to write about than Chicago '68, which Styron covered for the New York Review of Books and Miller attended as a delegate. Also observing for Esquire were Soviet Journalist Guenrikh Borovik, who felt "the world does not need this much...
...diversity. Richard Daley fumed in Chicago while Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffmann galloped over the convention floor as fully accredited representatives of Mad and Popular Mechanics. Marlo Thomas pushed very hard in order to get a picture of Hubert Humphrey. Jesse Jackson walked the corridors with Wallace delegates. Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Jimmy Breslin. Germaine Greer, Robert (UNCLE) Vaughan, all these as well as unprecedented numbers of blacks, women, and young delegates converged in the same hall. The gathering prompted incredulity, like that experienced by the peach-slacked Miami matron who walked her sequined-collared toy poodle into the midst...
...Norman Mailer, who represented Harper's last time, will write for LIFE this year. He will have a chance to compete with one of his more prominent nonfans, Feminist Germaine Greer, who will carry the Harper's colors at the Democratic Convention. For the Republican, Harper's is switching to Novelist-Playwright Kurt Vonnegut. The monthly's rival Atlantic is avoiding the name game. Says Managing Editor Michael Janeway. "We don't think it's the year for that. Some good, hard digging will be needed to cover this convention...