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...they had made them up themselves−which mostly they had. In recent years, however, New York has gone Wilde, and the newest darlings on its social circuit are artists and artisans who ten years ago were talked about but seldom talked to−such as, say, Norman (Mailer), Tennessee (Williams), Sammy (Davis Jr.), Gadge (Elia Kazan), Rudolf (Bing) and Cal (Robert Lowell). At the moment, the magic names are Andy and Edie...
...goes, so go the rest)." The list included Ralph Ginzburg, the publisher of Fact magazine; Bishop James Pike ("Because he's a kid's kind of troublemaker, always in hot water, always on the liberal side: birth control, capital punishment. The Bomb, and all that"); Caryl Chessman; Norman Mailer; and, good God, B.F. Skinner ("Because he points to the cool world...
Dwight MacDonald and Norman Mailer are traced through checkered careers. The one seems to be taken as representative of the '50's in his withdrawal from politics, the other typical of the Kennedy years in his admiration for the charismatic leader and his well-bred wife who together were to wed culture and politics, or their contemporary analogues, Broadway and Route 128, in an apotheosis of disciplined Power. Mailer's existentialism is in fact not too far from the old notion of "expressive politics" which the New Republic implicitly championed for years: commitment for the sake of commitment, action...
...what of Vietnam and Santo Domingo? The New Radicalism necessarily stops short of the teach-in movement, but the cast of characters has not changed radically. Mailer rants, Stone pleads, and gadfly MacDonald flits through the President's arts festival taking signatures on an anti-war petition. One might imagine that the radicals, if such they are, are hugely relieved to be once again in unqualified opposition to a hostile government and not cursed with the opportunity, however slight, of realizing the megalomaniacal tendencies that Mr. Lasch detects but does not name. Praise God, the autonomy of "culture...
...unread books. At the wall's foundation are the Pickwick Papers, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, Plato's Dialogues, Henry James, Boswell's Johnson, and countless other classics. At eye level are Paul Tillich and Samuel Eliot Morison, Barbara Tuchman and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, O'Hara, Mailer, Roth, Updike and Gunter Grass. "The multitude of books," as Voltaire observed, "is making us ignorant." Voltaire should be alive today...