Word: mailers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People section of TIME [Nov. 6] the following item appeared. "While Mailer waxed outrageous and his audience enthusiastically heckled. . . he dropped such nuggets as. . . 'Most women have just started to think in the last two or three years,' (and) 'McGovern is the only man who is morally superior to me.' Finally Mailer invited 'all the feminists in the audience to please hiss.' When a satisfying number obliged, he commented: 'Obedient little bitches...
...NORMAN MAILER New York City...
...John Hersey and James Michener. Of that generation of promising World War II novelists, only two have combined the talent, versatility, nerve, style and combative instincts to make it in the great big American way that joins the oakleaf cluster of durable celebrity to money. Obviously one is Norman Mailer. The other, not usually thought of as having been a young war novelist, is Gore Vidal. At 20 he published Williwaw, a taut, widely praised tale of life aboard a World War II Army tanker in the North Pacific...
...Like Mailer's in recent years, Vidal's celebrity rests less on his novels than on his political and cultural journalism-to say nothing of his public feuding. There was that scrap with Robert Kennedy, the nasty split with stepsister Jacqueline Onassis. Then Vidal endured an expensive lawsuit by William F. Buckley Jr. that stemmed from a joint TV appearance in which Vidal called the conservative columnist a "crypto-Nazi...
...political student of literature, one could hardly argue for the blanket incompatibility of art and politics. The trouble with Lessing is that her fiction is not its own end, but a vehicle, at best, for reportage. She documents rather than transfigures a world too much with her, Like Mailer, but without his conscious purpose, Lessing belongs to that category of writers who face the future in the uncertain terms of the journalist: event-ridden, self conscious, and without a philosophy strong enough to bear the burden of past and future instead she seeks refuge in the present, a present...