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...FESTIVAL. "Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up." Sometime novelist (The Naked and the Dead), would-be journalist ("Armies of the Night") and film director (Wild 90), Norman Mailer is alternately described as the greatest living U.S. writer and as a malcontented egomaniac. NET's cameras attempt a portrait of this man of many different faces and moods with film sequences of him at home, acting and directing, and addressing the October peace rally in Washington...
EVERY CRITIC has a position on Updike's style. It is "stale garlic" to Norman Mailer, "angel tongued" to most newspaper reviewers, "sometimes excessive" to Time magazine. Perhaps Updike's prose is overwrought and given to excess, to showing off. But it is in their excesses, as Updike once said of J. D. Salinger, that "artists become adventurers for us all." And it is, at least upon most occasions, an excess of love...
...their differences of nationality, mood or cause, student activists around the world have many common traits and habits. They tend to read the same authors, particularly the U.S.'s C. Wright Mills, Norman Mailer and Paul Goodman. Their favorite is California Professor Herbert Marcuse, 69, who argues that individuals are dominated and manipulated by big institutions of government and business, and that man has the obligation to oppose them. And they tend to have the same heroes; among them are such disparate Americans as Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Robert Kennedy, who is now much more popular with...
...vaguely funny article in last month's Holiday, Kahn described himself as a look-alike of Max Lerner if his hair is short, and a look-alike of Norman Mailer if his hair is long. He is a short man with a deep voice sometimes approaching a whisper. His features are cramped into the lower half of his face, leaving the upper half all forehead. When he interviewed me at dinner a few months ago, he smiled often, and his conversation was an anecdotal as his profile-writing. Keeping his notebook far over to the right of the table...
Long ago we marched to Washington and the Pentagon with Norman Mailer and Dr. Spock. And there was blood on our heads. And we sat. up all night on the steps. And we were alone. And long ago we sat down in Mallinckrodt Hall and held a little old man prisoner for hours and they put us on probation to please the Boston Globe. That was so long...