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Liberalism also draws salvos from the "aesthetic" left, whose self-appointed leader, Norman Mailer, summed up the critique in his Presidential Papers of last year. Mailer vents his spleen more on the language than the content of liberalism. Claiming to "understand" the poor, he resents liberals who classify the underprivileged as "problems:" "These are people, not quandaries, and they're hep enough to hate the big cement housing projects that 'tolerant' progressives build so proudly." Compassionate and sincere, Humphrey may be; hep, he is not. Where Mailer calls for an artist-politician, sensitive to the people's "existential" needs, Humphrey...
...problem which mother and son share is not the loneliness of their spirits but rather the desires of their flesh. In long, detailed passages, Dahlberg reveals his own passion, his adolescent frustration and its eventual satisfaction. In theory, these pages should resemble the autobiographies of such authors as Lawrence, Mailer and even Rousseau, all of whom describe their own sex lives in minute detail. Yet such comparisons are singularly inadequate. And the reason for this, the difference between Dahlberg's book and other autobiographies, explains the power of Because I Was Flesh...
...Mailer Presidential Papers...
That left the fellow whom the Portland Journal sniffed at and called "the Mail-Order Bride." According to the Oregonian's poll, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge still led the field with 40% of the vote. Lodge's Oregon campaign chief, David Goldberg, sent out a broadside promotion mailer to 353,000 Republicans, and within a week got back 22,000 pledge cards. "That's already a better percentage than we had in New Hampshire," he said happily. Thus, barring a last-minute surge on someone's part, it still looked as if Oregon were about...
...Mailer The Presidential Papers...