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...Armies of the Night, his Pulitzer-prizewinning journal of the 1967 antiwar march on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer lists his self-citations: "warrior, presumptive general, ex-political candidate, embattled aging enfant terrible of the literary world, wise father of six children, radical intellectual, existential philosopher, hard-working author, champion of obscenity, husband of four battling sweet wives, amiable bar drinker, and much exaggerated street fighter, party giver, hostess insulter." Not bad, but incomplete. Add frustrated novelist, passionate movie dabbler, sexual scientist, terror of the TV talk shows, critic of the global village and, to the ladies of Women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Women's Lib: Mailer v. Millett | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

Last month Mailer told a young Libbie in New York: "Wait'll you read my piece in the upcoming Harper's. It's going to burn and blow what's left of your little brain. I found out what I really thought about sex when I wrote this story, and it ain't good." Normally a rapacious reporter, Mailer, 48, needed to do little legwork; his life has been plentifully preoccupied with the subject. He holed up in a cottage at Provincetown, Mass., in the dreary off-season days of last November and December, spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Women's Lib: Mailer v. Millett | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

Enraged Amazons. "The Prisoner of Sex," out this week, features more four-letter words than Harper's has printed in all its 121-year history. Mailer's 47,000-word exercise in sexual dialectic will probably blow brains not only among Lib ladies but a sizable segment of the magazine's 359,000 circulation. Mailer moves in on Women's Lib with menacing metaphor, but ends in capitulation. Writing in the third person. Mailer finally admits that "he would agree with everything they asked but to quit the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Women's Lib: Mailer v. Millett | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

Groupies are not unique to rock-there have always been literary groupies, for example. Though Lord Byron tried hard to be discreet, his large following was well known. Norman Mailer once said the only advantage to being a famous writer is that one could have sex with whomever one wanted. And if we can believe Newsweek , even polls like Henry Kissinger have groupies...

Author: By Robert Crosby, | Title: Films Groupies | 2/19/1971 | See Source »

...mind of the Wasp bears more resemblance to the laser than the mind of any other ethnic group," said Mailer. "To wit, he can project himself 'extraordinary distances through a narrow path. He's disciplined, stoical, able to become the instrument of his own will, has extraordinary boldness and daring together with a resolute lack of imagination. He's profoundly nihilistic. And this nihilism found its perfect expression in the odyssey to the moon-because we went there without knowing why we went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 8, 1971 | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

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