Word: mailers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persuaded his friend and fellow Southerner William Styron to run a 35,000-word excerpt from The Confessions of Nat Turner in Harper's at a fee several times smaller than he could have got elsewhere. But his official declaration of independence came when he signed Norman Mailer to recount his experiences at a Washington peace march...
...radicalism aside, the student was admitted because his writing style was considered outstanding. "He sounded like another Norman Mailer," Peterson explained...
...last decade it was the twist and Jackie Kennedy. The culture moves so fast that one never can be quite sure of what is happening until the latest issue of Life (mainstream-pop culture) or Rolling Stone (counter pop-culture) arrives in the mail box. As Norman Mailer said a few weeks ago, only one factor of our national life is unchanging: "This country is a bitch...
...began a three-day jail sentence in Alexandria, Va., for his part in the 1967 march on the Pentagon, the prisoner treated reporters and U.S.' marshals to an arresting literary allusion. "Dick Nixon," said Author Norman Mailer, "is the living embodiment of Uriah Heep," and, like the character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, "a veritable cathedral of hypocrisy...
...Supreme Court unanimously upheld the law. Giving the recipient absolute power to decide what arouses him is perfectly proper, the court ruled, and neatly avoids censorship by the Government. Speaking for the court, Chief Justice Burger affirmed every citizen's right "to be let alone" and added: "A mailer's right to communicate must stop at the mailbox of an unreceptive addressee...