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...Russians meanwhile are moving steadily ahead. Despite the disastrous end of Soyuz 11, they are launching payloads of all kinds at almost three times the U.S. rate. It almost seems, says Norman Mailer, who chronicled the first lunar landing in his book Of a Fire on the Moon, as if Americans no longer find any poetry in the quest to reach the stars...
...Manned Spacecraft Center and NASA became the symbol of an older, less troubled America. While there may have been some minority members toiling in the back rooms, the men out front-the astronauts-have been white, middle class, and, it seemed all too often, unimaginative or insensitive. Mailer touched a raw nerve when he called Al Shepard's lunar golfing an "incredible vulgarity.'' Said Mailer: "Golf is insulting enough to people who live in ghettos, but when we start doing it on the moon, there is something obscene in it." While that judgment may be too harsh...
...braces stand up or they collapse. They inhabit a narrow and exhilarating area of risk and give the same pleasure that rises from a daring work of engineering. His devotion to "rightness" gives his work a curiously moral edge. It is existential sculpture, the way that Norman Mailer's best novels and reportage are existential writing: no fat, no decor...
...Bloodworth, author of sentimental Jewish novels not unlike the high-grade schmalz Green himself rendered in The Last Angry Man, crashes an international literary conference in Paris. Bloodworth, of course, is snubbed by the heavyweights, who are presented by Green as obvious caricatures of real writers, most notably the Mailer-like wild man named Arno Flackman and a cloudy Sontag named Lila Metrick...
...York City council approved creation of a committee to study secession, and a bill calling for a referendum on the establishing of a city-state was introduced in the New York legislature about the same time. Both efforts died from lack of interest. Mayoralty Candidate Norman Mailer revived the idea in 1969 when he made the 51st state his key campaign issue...