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...What we are running on," New York Mayoral Candidate Norman Mailer told the voters last year, "is one basic simple notion, which is that till people see where their ideas lead, they know nothing." For years Mailer has been following and accepting the consequences of his own ideas, most notably those about the revitalizing effects of physical violence. Indeed, the main point that lunges out of former Campaign Manager Joe Flaherty's shrewdly conceived, vigorously written and entertaining account of Mailer's Visigothic raid into forum politics is the novelist's need to test his genius...
...today or 10 a.m. tomorrow in Boylston 305. Graduate students should see Professor Setchkarey. Only mid-term grades of B or above will exempt students from the final exams. A make-up exam will be given next October for those who wish to waive their exam till the fall. Absence of a mid-term grade is sufficient evidence to fail a student...
...nerves; marriage is a ferocious pillow-fight battle of the sexes. The links do not stop there. The tempo of Manhattan is a kind of running fever; modern marriage runs a fever, and the partners are always taking its temperature. It simply is not the placid old heaven-ordained, till-death-do-us-part, for-better-for-worse institution it used...
These masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse, or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladder's start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart...
...myself, 'I wonder who that extraordinary man is,' for anyone must have seen that he was an extraordinary man, certain to make a mark on the world. Once, leaving, I saw that he was just behind me, so that I held the door open for him till he had passed. That was the nearest I ever got to him. I never sat next to Lenin. No such luck...