Word: spookiest
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...HARVARD last spring, Mailer said that the book was the hardest he had written. He was confronted with "the spookiest adventure in history, a landing on the moon," and the event had nothing more to show for itself than machines and technicians whose personalities were wedded to the "absolute computer of the corporation." Faced with such a banality of facts and resolved to restore "magic psyche and the spirits of the underworld" to the venture, Mailer, calling himself Aquarius and summoning the aeronautical engineering of his undergraduate days, takes recourse to his senses to give us a dazzling report...