Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hills' Trousdale Estates, where homes cost from $100,000 to $300,000, and Hancock Park, an old area of the central city that has been restored to extraordinary elegance. In Hancock Park, in stately mansions set on handsomely landscaped grounds, live Industrialist Norton Simon, Banker Howard Ahmanson and Norman Chandler, president of the Times Mirror...
CANNIBALS AND CHRISTIANS by Norman Mailer. 400 pages. Dial...
LOVE'S BODY, by Norman O. Brown. Further Freudian ruminations, by the author of Life Against Death, on the theme of sexual repression as the greatest enemy of human happiness and freedom...
...Norman is an inviting patsy. "I sign check after check," he says, to "achieve a nirvana in which I don't have to look at anything I don't wish to." Con men and con women bilk him of a fortune and enclose his spirit brick by brick behind a wall of paranoia. A male model and his wife, whom he hires to smooth his way in New York, take off with his new car and a year's advance pay. Norman buys a mountainside in New Mexico, only to have a soulful Indian talk him into...
...Arab boy, the only one who never took advantage of him, Norman wrote the book's theme: "The romantic and the sinister are always intertwined in an attitude somewhere between a struggle and an embrace." By intertwining them, Lambert has achieved an authentic tragicomedy about an authentic 20th century Quixote...