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...immense energy of the time left many introspective. The virtues of the time were conformity, domesticity, respectability, security, attention to religion. Norman Mailer hated the whole business enough to call the '50s "one of the worst decades in the history of man." And the dark side was dark enough. A thin film of nuclear terror coated the psyche...
During its illustrious history, Harper's published the writing of Dickens, Trollope and Twain. In the late 1960s, Editor Willie Morris, a Mississippian who earned his spurs at the Texas Observer, signed up a bunch of literary gunslingers - Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Larry King - to give the magazine what one critic called "sophistication with a whoop." Morris and his gang walked out in 1971 when Harper's absentee owners objected to that new direction...
DIED. Henry Miller, 88, earthy novelist and evangelist of unfettered sex, once hailed by Norman Mailer as "the last great American pioneer," in Pacific Palisades, Calif. After two decades as a roustabout in jobs ranging from a tailor shop to a New York speakeasy, Miller joined the expatriate migration to Paris, where he wrote his autobiographical sagas, Tropic of Cancer, (1934), and Tropic of Capricorn, (1939). Their bawdiness prevented their publication in the U.S. until the liberated 1960s, but Miller, who married five times and spent his later years ruminating on California's Big Sur, lived...
This was more than your every-day neighborhood casual trashing. Norman Mailer '43, speaking in Sanders Theatre a few nights later, had this comment. "Throwing bricks is good for some people and bad for others. The main thing is to do it authentically." Veritas, always. He also said, "Revolutionaries have two options--one is to be militant and the other is to think." An undergraduate observer, Frank Rich '72, watched the Battle of Harvard Square and cared not to debate its propriety or effectiveness as a tactic for ending the war--"to talk for or against violence as a means...
...Executioner's Song, Mailer...