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...AMERICAN DREAM by Norman Mailer. 270 pages. Dial...
...Norman Mailer is not the best U.S. novelist of his time, he is certainly the most conspicuous. No literary cocktail party or TV panel is complete without him, whether he appears in his role of spokesman for the intellectual left or as prophet of the new morality...
...fact, what appears to have occupied most of his energy during the last decade is not novel writing but a messianic effort at transmogrifying the entire U.S.-society, psyches, applecarts and all. That this is the business of a holy man, or an adman, does not deter him. Mailer yearns to be hip, but he is inescapably square. For only a born square would preach the way he does. That is what is exasperating, touching, and ultimately tedious about...
...Norman Mailer," a fellow in blue jeans quickly answered. "Now that the Chinese and French have achieved the ultimate weapon, we ought to switch the competition away from weaponry, as Mailer says, to orgasms. I'd follow...
Obviously it is very easy to attack our Vice-President-to-be, from nearly any political direction. Still, I doubt that any of his critics, from Miller to Mailer, will ever strike a really telling blow. Humphrey may disdain the President's art of dodging partisan thrusts, but he does know how to stand still, absorb them, and learn from them, growing sager and more maddeningly lovable all the while...