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Those who sometimes wonder what happened to the American left, which disappeared in a cloud of vapidity round about the start of the Eisenhower years, should consider the case of Norman Mailer...
...mythology, essential to the twentieth-century American funeral rite has grown up--or rather has been built up step by step--to justify the peculiar customs surrounding the disposal of our dead... Gradually, almost imperceptibly, over the years the funeral men have constructed their own grotesque cloud-cuckooland where the trappings of Gracious Living are transformed, as in a nightmare, into the trappings of Gracious Dying... The emphasis is one the same desirable qualities that we have all been schooled to look for in our daily search for excellence: comfort, durability, beauty, craftsmanship." From THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH...
...Friday night crowd at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway was in a festive mood. In the grandstand, beer cans rattled and pari-mutuel machines beat a steady thunk, thunk, thunk. In the Cloud Casino, champagne corks popped and waiters served steaks. For some, it was just a night at the races. But most were drawn there by a fantasy of instant wealth...
...virtuous woman is perpetually threatened by a cloud no bigger than a man's hand...
...within the Administration? In the interval between Halaby's no and Bobby's yes, pretrial testimony had established that in guiding the United DC-8, FAA controllers at Idlewild departed from standard procedures. Those departures could hardly be said to have caused the collision, but they did cloud the question of the Government's responsibility...