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Harper's gambles most of its March issue on the hope that readers will be fascinated by Norman Mailer's 90,000-word reflections on the follies of last fall's Washington Peace March. Mailer flails himself as much as he does other Mailerian targets-Nazis, cancer, L.B.J., newspapers, and TIME. Indeed, Mailer begins by fully quoting TIME'S Oct. 27 account of his performance on the stage of Washington's Ambassador Theater at a rally before the Pentagon march began. Drunk he was, and he admits it. But the crisp account of Mailer...
...first gotten into trouble in the Y.M.C.A., and hadn't spoken to anyone since." Arrested himself during the opening hours of the Pentagon siege, Mailer winds up in the same paddy wagon with a tall, ferocious American Nazi, and stares him down in the inevitable Mailerian confrontation of wills. "You Jew bastard," shouts the Nazi. "Kraut pig!" replies Norman, only a bit embarrassed. But for Mailer's reportorial eye and his caustic comments on an America overwhelmed by institutionalism, his version of the Pentagon march might have become far too personal. As it is, he reveals the diversity...