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...seeking to convey this sense, Wills succeeds brilliantly. Wills's failing is a kind endemic to the journalist who think well and thinks a lot. Wills's style, like Norman Mailer's is that of the elastic bag. He can go from profound talk about the Vatican doctrine on birth control as "biological teleology passing through stoic reductionism" to a discussion of the nun who thinks that public relations slogans and graphics are this era's most important contribution to the arts. He throws together all sorts of ideas and facts, shakes them up, and up, and Voila! The problem...
...People section of TIME [Nov. 6] the following item appeared. "While Mailer waxed outrageous and his audience enthusiastically heckled. . . he dropped such nuggets as. . . 'Most women have just started to think in the last two or three years,' (and) 'McGovern is the only man who is morally superior to me.' Finally Mailer invited 'all the feminists in the audience to please hiss.' When a satisfying number obliged, he commented: 'Obedient little bitches...
...NORMAN MAILER New York City...
...John Hersey and James Michener. Of that generation of promising World War II novelists, only two have combined the talent, versatility, nerve, style and combative instincts to make it in the great big American way that joins the oakleaf cluster of durable celebrity to money. Obviously one is Norman Mailer. The other, not usually thought of as having been a young war novelist, is Gore Vidal. At 20 he published Williwaw, a taut, widely praised tale of life aboard a World War II Army tanker in the North Pacific...
...Like Mailer's in recent years, Vidal's celebrity rests less on his novels than on his political and cultural journalism-to say nothing of his public feuding. There was that scrap with Robert Kennedy, the nasty split with stepsister Jacqueline Onassis. Then Vidal endured an expensive lawsuit by William F. Buckley Jr. that stemmed from a joint TV appearance in which Vidal called the conservative columnist a "crypto-Nazi...