Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoke a few lonely pickets outside the Princeton Theological Seminary (where the closing session was held) made the same point. "These tired old conferees are being used to give the illusion that 'intellectuals' are participating in America's absurdity," their sign read and then listed I.F. Stone, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, Mary McCarthy, and Andrew Kopkind as likely intellectuals who might have been invited. Brown added Tom Hayden to the list...
...media were also there in force, waiting patiently and apprehensively. Norman Mailer was there and Allen Ginsburg, Jean Genet and Terry Southern. And at about midnight the policemen were there...
...enemy? The report finds that they were a very mixed bag, running the gamut from pacifists, assorted peace groups, Communists, socialists, anarchists and New Left students, all the way to the yippies, who seem to have been the most baffling to Chicago authorities. The yippies appeared to be, in Norman Mailer's approving term, largely "existential," meaning that they lacked any clear-cut ideology or program. Yippies accept no leaders, not even their own, and Daley and his men could scarcely make much sense of yippie manifestos like that of Abbie Hoffman, who saw the movement as "new phenomena...
...Brigade. On the general answers to most of these questions, the heart surgeons are agreed, though they differ on details. No, say the surgeons emphatically, the beginning of transplants was not premature. The surgical technique had been worked out years earlier, in animals, by Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., with Dr. Richard R. Lower, who is now at the Medical College of Virginia. Both Shumway and Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz had their scalpels poised when South Africa...
Over the years, Nixon has formed close friendships with two of the nation's best-known preachers: Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale. Nixon occasionally attends Baptist church services with Graham, and one of the President-elect's few public statements on religion was written for Graham's monthly magazine Decision in 1965. "Some of our voices in the pulpit today," Nixon wrote, "speak too much about religion in the abstract, rather than in personal, simple terms. More preaching from the Bible rather than just about the Bible is what America needs." Nixon also described religion...