Word: mailers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern technology has undermined heroism, Levin maintained. With the conscription of large-scale armies and the development of the airplane and the bomb, the individual has come to count less and less. Defending Norman Mailer's book, "The Naked and the Dead," which in no sense justified war, Levin asserted that the only real relationship between war and literature has been and should continue to be the truth...
...anthology covers the Advocate from 1866 to 1942, and consists mainly of material never published in book form. Other authors include Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Wallace Stevens '01, E. E. Cummings '15, Norman K. Mailer '43, Robert C. Benchley '12, and Professors George Lyman Kittredge '82, Charles T. Copeland '82, Charles T. Copeland '82, and John H. Finley...
...Debby?Max Steels. 2. The Wall? John Hersey. 3. Burmese Days?George Orwell 4. The Egyptian? Mika Waltari. 5. The Naked and the Dead?Norman Mailer...
...your go to the Harvard Archives on the fourth level of Lamont Library and take from the shelves the back issues of the Advocate, you will find that T. S. Eliot wrote fragile but rather meaningless verse for its pages, and Norman Mailer contributed stories whose characters were the crudest sort of obvious types. There is no telling where an undergraduate may go from those days when he's trying to find himself. Most of the writing in the Commencement Issue of the Advocate reflects some of the failings of this formative period, some of it shows promise...