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Whether Mailer's work goes down "as a strange aberrations flash...or as one of the most seminal and enduring voices in contemporary literary history remains to be determined," Mills notes in the final chapter. But it is certain that the author's life alone will be remembered for its enormous and diverse undertakings. Arranged in strictly chronological form, the biography seems to gather together all of Mailer's activities--starting with his career as a Harvard engineering major--together with hundreds of quotes from wives, editors, friends and the like. This technique creates a many-sided view...
Mills's technique works particularly well in the chapter on Mailer's much-publicized arguments with feminist leaders. Attacked for caustic comments up to and including "Women should be kept in cages" (on an Orson Welles talk show), Mailer maintains that it's harder for women to be feminine after the technological advances. Mills quotes him pleading with women not to "quit the womb." Abbie Hoffman says Mailer "sees feminism as the decline of civilization" but describes how Mailer's own social habits counter his chauvinistic image. But Mills also quotes Germaine Greer, who said Mailer "pushed himself into...
...award in given "in recognition of high attainment in liberal scholarship," Michael J. Folz '83, the chapter's undergraduate first marshal, said yesterday...
...group then holds two more elections, selecting 12 juniors in April, and many more seniors in May. The May election of seniors is the largest of the three elections, adding 50 or so members to the chapter's rolls...
...Radcliffe chapter has also completed its fall elections and its new members will be announced soon...