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...your Harvard date took you to his room, you had to be signed in and signed out, and hours of departure were specified. First-semester freshmen were allowed out after 10 p.m. only 10 times. I spent one of mine double dating with Norman Mailer, drinking gin and water because he said it was the drink of the English working class...
...read the papers every day for war news, andwe watched for the mailman like hawks. Like manyothers, I was engaged to be married, although notto Normal Mailer, and I wrote and received aletter every day. As Harvard students left, Navyand Army officer training a sprinkling ofMexicans, Greeks and Chinese in my economicscourses, which combined graduate students withupper level undergraduates...
...intent of Oswald's Tale," Mailer explains modestly enough, "is not to solve the case--that's beyond my means--but to delineate for the reader what kind of man he was (that is to say, what kind of character Oswald would be in a novel) and thereby enable the reader to start thinking about which plots, conspiracies or lone actions Oswald would have been capable of, as opposed to all the ones he would never...
Working with Lawrence Schiller, the investigator and literary operator, Mailer spent six months in Minsk and Moscow interviewing friends and co-workers who knew the American defector in 1959 and the early '60s, when he worked unhappily in a Soviet radio plant and courted and married Marina Prusakova. Mailer and Schiller also interviewed some of the KGB agents who had the stupefying work of following Oswald around, and they read the KGB transcripts from the electronic bugs installed in the Oswalds' Minsk apartment-the intimacies and banalities of quarreling newlyweds. ("Wife: [yells] ... I'm not going to cook. L.H.O...
...Mailer's accomplishment--and it is, after all, the purpose he set for himself--is to turn Oswald, that historical smudge, into a troubled, touching human being, rounded and vulnerable and ultimately, Mailer thinks, fatally grandiose: a nut case and nonentity with Hitler-scale dreams. There is perverse American poignancy in the newlyweds' Minsk days, when Lee dreamed of having a son, to be named David, who would grow up to be President...