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...Revolutionaries have two options: one is to be militant, and the other is to think," author Norman Mailer '43 said at Harvard last night...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Mailer Reads on Apollo Moonshot | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...Mailer had unkind words for "humorless radicals" both before and after reading excerpts from his forthcoming book on the Apollo 13 moon-landing to a crowd of 500 in Sanders Theatre...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Mailer Reads on Apollo Moonshot | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...measure how radical we are by how nihilistic we are," Mailer said. "This is a nightmarish time for rational thought...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Mailer Reads on Apollo Moonshot | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...trying to rise up and shake off the wellwrought snares of our past. But it takes time, and interest. We want manuscripts and ideas. We're offering two prizes this spring, and two speakers: Diane Wakoski, a talented, gutsy young poet, tonight, and Norman Mailer on Sunday. Finally, we're distributing the Advocate free to students for the first time. When you find the Advocate under your door this month, we hope you'll read it, and then come tell us about it.( The author is the President of the Harvard Advocate...

Author: By Jonathan Galassi, | Title: Writing What to Do About Poetry | 4/17/1970 | See Source »

Pain eats up energy. Politics does not encourage precise thought. "When you begin to shout and find the smile fixing itself on your mouth," Grass says, "you know you're really in politics." Political campaigns are also distracting?as Norman Mailer, the one major writer in the U.S. whose recent course seems to parallel Grass's, recently found out. There are critics who say that Grass will turn from writing to action for good if Willy Brandt should offer him a big enough job in the new government. Grass denies that. As proof, he holds up not only his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dentist's Chair as an Allegory in Life | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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