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...voice (really, many voices), the voice of the Women's Liberation Movement, has been making itself heard for over a year now. But until recently, the voice of the ideological opposition has only rumbled intermittently on talk shows and in Playboy interviews. Finally, Harper's magazine has allowed Norman Mailer to speak his piece on life inside the prison...
...resulting work- From Here to Eternity- was considered by Mailer to be the best post-war American novel; it is also one of the best novels of any time and country dealing with military life. Its virtues are its breadth, its honesty, and its passion. Jones was a dogface like the misfits and unhappy conformists he wrote about, and his bludgeoning style proved appropriate for depicting men of unexpected intelligence thrown into situations where long-hidden sensitivities are laid bare. The excitement of From Here to Eternity lay in the author's recognition that his spirit of negation...
When From Here to Eternity was published, Jones became the wealthiest novelist of his generation, and one of the most acclaimed. As a matter of American business course, he began to run for Mailer's cultural presidency. The search for the drama of willful men, the sensitivity to dialogue and detail that distinctively marked his treatment of strained human relationships, disappeared in glamorous eyewash: society seemed to be pilloried only for profit. What emerged unscathed from Jones' commercialization were his least savory qualities. It soon became apparent that Jones had written Warden into From Here to Eternity not so much...
...with Mailer. The downfall of Willie Morris was precipitated in large degree by a prominently displayed, controversial article by Norman Mailer in the current Harper's (TIME, Feb. 22). Mailer takes up most of the issue with his caustic treatment of Women's Liberation in general and Kate Millett in particular. The article is loaded with explicit sexual references and slang more familiar to college bull sessions than to Harper's. Morris knew he was taking a chance by printing it. Running the Mailer piece, he says, was "the biggest editorial risk of my life...
...Mailer characterized Morris' departure as "the most depressing event in American letters in many a year. Under Willie's editorship. Harper's has been the boldest and most adventurous magazine in America. It's damned depressing to feel that another man gets hit because of you. I know I'm not going to write for Harper's anymore." At the beginning of his tenure at Harper's, Morris published Mailer's "On the Steps of the Pentagon," which subsequently won a Pulitzer Prize in book form as Armies of the Night. Last...