Word: normans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S was one of the nicest surprises of the old year: a funny, affectionate valentine to the vanished days of burlesque. Songs, dances, and moldy jokes are all delivered with appropriate irreverence. The actors, including Jason Robards and Norman Wisdom as a couple of seedy comics, Britt Ekland as an innocent young thing in the big city, and Joseph Wiseman and Harry Andrews as concerned fathers, all seem perfect for their parts...
...people sense about Nixon's appointments, and his style, a tone of reassuring Wasp respectability and good manners. The forces that elected Nixon-those who most avidlv supported him-are Wasp to the core; the "ethnic blocs" voted for Humphrey. With Nixon's accession, noted Norman Mailer, it is "possible, even likely, even necessary that the Wasp enter the center of our history again...
Wasp power is obscured by the divisions natural to a majority, which keep Wasps from coalescing into the kind of cohesive blocs that other groups have formed. The Republican Party is preeminently Wasp; yet it has been rent for generations by deep-seated disagreements. Norman Mailer characterized the alienated delegates lusting for liberal blood at the 1964 convention. In a typical Mailer caricature, he evoked a "Wasp Mafia where the grapes of wrath were stored. Not for nothing did the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have a five-year subscription to Reader's Digest and National Geographic, high colonies...
...possibly be able to live together, however, temporarily, however uneasily. For one thing, liberals have not explored their marvelously traditional device for dealing with radicalism, the method now known as co-optation. For instance, the New Deal (including its latest incarnation, however degraded, as the Great Society) dealt with Norman Thomas by taking some of the content of his proposals, most of the moral rhetoric, and leaving behind only the impulse to socialism, which is what he shared with those further left. This move is still open to liberals...
...Norman K. Mailer '43 will be a candidate for the Harvard Board of Overseers in this spring's election of five new members...