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Mailer was surely the best actor to pay us court, the most practiced at thinking on his feet with a glass in his hand. Now and again he paused, sipping the fine yeasts of his bourbon, to regard us over a glass rim while his eyes squinted as if to flirt with a wink. Oratorically, however, he was off his game. A few weeks earlier he had read to an appreciative Harvard audience in Sanders Theatre from his new manuscript, Of A Fire On The Moon, scooping up questions as smoothly as a sure-handed shortstop, turning a few heckler...
...copies of that book to be thrust upon friends with commands that it be immediately read. Norman Mailer's early novels made their own strong impressions: I came to consider Mailer the American writer who best understood our society as it marched crazily through the present toward that outer rim falling away to fiery voids; he foresaw bits and pieces of tomorrow more readily than others. Fate would in time provide introductions to my contemporary literary idols, and I would be properly awed: imagine an apprentice lawyer in the presence of Darrow. Styron I would know better than Mailer, though...
...Mailer who in a sense looked West, looked ahead, looked out to the horizon at that fiery outer rim: it was important to see who might fall off, and for what mad or ironic reasons, and in what style they would go over: screaming the sissy begging of pardons, or spitting and pissing into the flames? Styron looked South, looked back to where the land was burned out or spiritually polluted or lying fallow, and empty souls stood whispering their personal regrets: for him it was more important to consider what might have been than what might yet be. Mailer...
...were also moved for "safekeeping." Anxious to thwart any rescue attempts, the Popular Front split them up into groups of four or five and scattered them to different hiding places. Before the fighting broke out, most were believed to be in a sprawling Palestinian refugee center on the southern rim of the capital, called Amman New Camp. At the same camp the guerrillas are believed to be holding $650,000 in U.S. bills that Swissair last week admitted had been aboard its skyjacked plane. When the guerrillas found out about the money by reading the craft's loading sheet, they...
...objective support to U. S. policy goals. Of the 15 Fellows who visited the Center each year, just less than half were American officials, and the rest were almost exclusively from Britain, France, West Germany, South Korea, Japan, and other nations vital to the success of the Free World Rim Strategy. They had come here to study concrete situations, relevant theories, and game strategies; their purpose was to improve the efficacy of their governments, governments friendly to American-influence and dependent on American support in the fight against Communism and insurgent nationalism. The intent was as simple as that...