Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That embarrassment is easily trebled as I marvel at the clarity, the wit, the gay dispatch with which critics have flayed the hide off poor Norman Mailer (who cares so terribly much what they think--even the ones he most despises) and left him in paunchy, shivering nakedness, his eyes to the ground, his hands over his genitals, like some pugnacious locker-room bull artist exposed as a virgin in front of the whole damn team...
...maybe Norman has taken me in with his book, with his mophead bragadoccio, with his bullying megalomania, with his shouting, roaring "Look at me! Look at ME!" O.K., I say, I'll stand there and shiver with him rather than step out into the crowd and point, and laugh, or look a bit bemused and tut-tut to my neighbor. Because some big gas is building up in Mailer's chest, straining against his rib cage, straining to explode out any orifice into a dazzling fireworks of vision, or prophecy, or whatever those fireworks are that naked writers with gaseous...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Portrait of Socialist Leader Norman Thomas...
Toward a New Ethic. Today, argues Driver, the world is full of neopagan sex worshipers-Norman Mailer questing for the "good orgasm," for example. The church today should therefore follow Jesus and seek to "demythologize" sex, proclaiming that man can sin sexually but in much the same way that he sins with money or political power. "The construction of a Christian ethic of sex," Driver concludes, "cannot be properly attempted as long as one retains the mythology of sex that grew up in the ancient religions, is perpetuated in new ones, and from which Jesus as the Christ would liberate...
...past the astonishing universality, of the mother tongue. It may be enough just to discover why, from some hillbilly throats, it escapes as hit-that was how the English said it in Chaucer's time. Or that the perfectly good Anglo-Saxon verb clyppan yielded to a Norman import (embracen) and survives in English today only in the humble paper clip...