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...began a three-day jail sentence in Alexandria, Va., for his part in the 1967 march on the Pentagon, the prisoner treated reporters and U.S.' marshals to an arresting literary allusion. "Dick Nixon," said Author Norman Mailer, "is the living embodiment of Uriah Heep," and, like the character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, "a veritable cathedral of hypocrisy...
...disfigured moral orthodoxy. Men have lost the traditional meaning of reason, action, pride, and honor, yet oppose these, in bitter debates between corrosive delusions. This is the historic worry of heroic song, Platonic dramatic dialogue-poems, Shakespeare, the Romantics, modern poets such as Pound and Eliot, and even of Mailer...
...make that callow and ridiculous statement that you have the audacity to put between quotation marks. " 'Now if I were Norman Mailer,' said the author of Portnoy's Complaint, 'I'd be up in the ring after the first bout, kicking away at the boxers in golf shoes.' " Whatever tin-eared fantast fed you that one should at least have told you to include in your story the fact that in Thailand the boxers fight principally with theii feet. As it stands, the quotation is not only predictably without any relation to fact...
...Apollo 13 astronauts were "men of iron-strange, plasticized, half-communicating Americans," Mailer added. When they placed a metal U.S. flag on the moon's surface, he read, "patriotism, corporations, and national taste were all occupying the same head...
...Best. O'Hara had little patience with writers of the '60s; he was of an earlier era, a contemporary of Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis. "I've never been able to read Norman Mailer," he complained in 1967. "Mailer is a dirty Saroyan." Bernard Malamud and William Styron received the same short shrift. Most young writers, however, confess to at least a degree of admiration for O'Hara. "He has more genius than talent," John Updike wrote in 1966. "Very little censoring went on in his head, but his best stories have the flowing...