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...Arts. Anybody's guess is good here. L. E. Sissman '48, the poet, is possibly but unlikely. It is hard to envision she Corporation swallowing Norman Mailer '43, but John Updike '54 might be more acceptable. In the plastic arts, almost anybody could be named. The Washington Post reported yesterday that South African author and Nobel Prize winner Alan Paton is coming to the Boston area this week to pick up an honorary from a local college...
FIRST there was Kate Millett-just a year ago. The Karl Marx of the New Feminism, they all said. She was bright (a professor, yet) and scholarly, but, the reviewers also said, she was too masculine. Then Norman Mailer came along and told us she misquoted Miller, and what's more mysticism is groovy, and everyone cooled off on Millett, although Mailer left a lot more to be desired. And now there's Germaine Greet- "Saucy Feminist That Even Men Like," says Life magazine. Well, maybe...
...read about Creer in Mailer and loved her; heard about her TV performances and hated her. Now that I've read The Female Eunuch I'm simply disappointed because she had some real fine ideas but blew...
Blum pointed to the writings of John Hersey and Norman Mailer '43 to explain the widening sense of disgust in which war is viewed. He cited the late General George Patton as the prototype of the "unintellectual" warrior, interested only in destruction...
...Norman Mailer and James Dickey playing muse to the moon shot (or, as Berrigan puts it, "Court Historian"), and a brief, witty dictionary of definitions. The result is an uneven book, often written from the bottom of the heart but sometimes off the top of the head...