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Sometimes memoirs, sometimes literature, The Double Helix is a perfect example of the new kind of journalism which has come to dominate the best-seller lists. Like Norman Mailer on the conventions, Watson is telling what happened as Watson saw it, as Watson likes to remember it. Thus, we are provided as much insight into the author as into the subject. And this is the way Watson intended it, for just as the new journalism proclaims that the story depends on the reporter, Watson writes in his introduction that science's steps forward "are often very human events in which...
...lonely pickets outside the Princeton Theological Seminary (where the closing session was held) made the same point. "These tired old conferees are being used to give the illusion that 'intellectuals' are participating in America's absurdity," their sign read and then listed I.F. Stone, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, Mary McCarthy, and Andrew Kopkind as likely intellectuals who might have been invited. Brown added Tom Hayden to the list...
...media were also there in force, waiting patiently and apprehensively. Norman Mailer was there and Allen Ginsburg, Jean Genet and Terry Southern. And at about midnight the policemen were there...
...report finds that they were a very mixed bag, running the gamut from pacifists, assorted peace groups, Communists, socialists, anarchists and New Left students, all the way to the yippies, who seem to have been the most baffling to Chicago authorities. The yippies appeared to be, in Norman Mailer's approving term, largely "existential," meaning that they lacked any clear-cut ideology or program. Yippies accept no leaders, not even their own, and Daley and his men could scarcely make much sense of yippie manifestos like that of Abbie Hoffman, who saw the movement as "new phenomena...
...better the interview. In waging this belligerent kind of journalism, her weapons are a tape recorder, an eye-catching figure and a vulnerable glint in her wide blue eyes. She roams the world in search of people who are not simpatico but antipatico, and she has bagged dozens-Norman Mailer, Federico Fellini, Michael Caine, Dean Martin, El Cordobes, Hugh...