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...every three families) or the Cuba that is building and providing housing free for everyone? The Cuba that was "only" 20-30 per cent illiterate or the Cuba that is now close to 0.0 per cent? The Cuba that printed 1,000,000 books in 1958 (mostly dime novels, Superman, and bad pornography) or the Cuba that printed 23,000,000 volumes in 1968-mostly textbooks but also history, economics, and best-selling editions of the European classics...
...four, the dark, hulking Reed is the most remote from the author's conception of a Nordic superman. The closest to the true Lawrentian is Glenda Jackson, who made her reputation as Charlotte Corday in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Marat-Sade. Playing the repressed, inflammable Gudrun, she is a total re-creation of the impassioned, nearly liberated woman whose yards of shapeless clothes could not conceal her unrelieved sexual longing, and whose prudish conversation was almost always alive with allusions...
...black men, they must approve the new recognition won by black artists. But as artists, they dislike the white man's current celebration of them merely because they are black. As one artist put it: "The black artist is a man, baby, not some kind of plastic superman you can make tap dance to Whitey's tune." Said another scornfully: "If they want black art, just take a canvas, paint it black, call it Nigger Number One, and they...
...slipped them on, and it was like Superman in the stockroom at the Daily Planet, a large metropolitan newspaper. I walked around the place with this really cocky stride and checked them out in the mirror. I was too much. I wondered how I put up with those ??? ??? booties for so long...
...Norman Mailer, novelist, becomes Norman Mailer, journalist, with "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" about Kennedy's nomination, in Esquire...