Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer a promise to participate in the Washington protests and thus give up a valuable weekend. The lost weekend really starts off when Norman, very much in his bourbon cups at a fund-raising evening in a theater, urinates on the floor of a darkened men's room. He then goes on to bully his fellow speakers with arrogant bluster and to bawdy his audience with testy...
Mailer evokes some marvelously mordant closeups of his fellow "weekend revolutionaries" as they try to do their ritualistic protest thing quickly, so that they can get back to New York for a dinner party. "Lowell's shoulders had a slump," writes Mailer. "One did not achieve the languid grandeurs of that slouch in one generation-the grandsons of the first sons had best go through the best troughs in the best eating clubs at Harvard before anyone in the family could try for such elegant note." Ideologue Paul Goodman "looked like the sort of old con who had first...
Although he came in last in the three-cornered race, McCarthy ran very strong. Last weekend, he stated that he would consider 25 per cent of the Indiana vote a victory...
Harvard supporters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's "Poor People's March" are asking undergraduates to help house and feed poor people on their way to anti-poverty demonstrations in Washington this weekend...
...appeal appears to be working in McCarthy's favor during these last few days of the primary campaign as it did during the last weekend in the New Hampshire campaign. Many feel that the Minnesota Senator may be able to catch up with his quiet appeal...