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...else, these displays of individual worth are simply beautiful. In a way, the Games extend definitions of beauty. Why is synchronized swimming no more beautiful than the bulging grimace of a weight lifter? Art rarely pins these things down. Painters miss it. Writers do worse, with exceptions such as Mailer on boxing, Updike on golf, Hemingway on a bobsled run: "A bob shot past, all the crew moving in time, and as it rushed at express train speed for the first turn, the crew all cried 'Ga-a-a-a-r!' and the bob roared in an icy smother around...
Because of the size of the building, the University limited the bash to 120 guests. As a result, the Club was forced to turn away a number of 'undergraduates and Signet alumni--more than a few feathers were ruffled when it turned out that famous ex-Signeteer Norman W. Mailer '43 was informed that he would not be welcome...
...that the editors of The Crimson many of whom are aspirants to the writing trade, would throw in with the priggish wing of the Left that leans all too blithely toward censorship. There is more virulent misogyny to be found in the books of Charles Bokowski or even Norman Mailer than in anything that ever circulated at the Pi Eta, yet I wouldn't want to see them removed from the stacks of Widener simply because a cult of cocksure feminists was camped on the front steps...
FUTURES IN TRUST. NORMAN MAILER...
...scope of its residential house program, Penn is also in the second year of a college house seminar program in which a guest from outside the university becomes part of the house community for a week. Some recent guests include, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and iconoclastic novelist Norman Mailer '43 are two luminaries who recently visited...