Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposition that every girl gets . . . sooner or later." As usual, winking wickedness turns out to be mostly eyewash, but the plot-more to be pitied than censored-gets a buoyant lift from Stars Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Rod Taylor. All three abandon themselves to the film version of Norman Krasna's trite Broadway farce with disarming faith, as though one more glossy, glittering package of pseudo sex might save the world...
...exciting novel, full of surprises, knowledge of the world, and fine proportions"-Norman Mailer. Translation: "I could outwrite him with crayons...
...Norman Thomas Socialist who views U.S. society from "the most pessimistic point of view" and whose interpretation is "bleak and grim." He admits that his "moral point of departure is a sense of outrage." His book is barbed with generalizations about "the strangest poor in the history of mankind." It suffers from poorly drawn examples that often fail to punctuate his points. It jumps with startling hyperbole and flaccid statistics; he says, for example, that there are some 50 million poor in the U.S.,* but admits this may be an exaggeration. Yet when he writes of the poor...
...reticence about acknowledging it. "Me a gourmet?" he says deprecatingly, when he actually craves things like river pike drenched in crayfish butter and will, under interrogation and a glaring light, admit that one day last summer he drove 75 miles out of his way to patronize a noted Norman chef, eating two complete meals in a gastric feat that might have made Brillat-Savarin wink in his grave...
...years ago, Elmer Gantry and All Quiet on the Western Front were banned in Boston; today Supreme Court decisions have had the net effect of allowing everything to be published except "hardcore pornography." It is hard to remember that as recently as 1948, in The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer felt compelled to reduce his favorite four letters to three ("fug"), or that there was ever any fuss about poor old Lady Chatterley's Lover and his worshipful deification of sexual organs. John O'Hara, whose writing until recently was criticized as "sex-obsessed," appears positively Platonic...