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...there is indeed a new Puritanism, it has its own Cotton Mather. Man, says Norman Mailer, "knows at the seed of his being that good orgasm opens his possibilities and bad orgasm imprisons him." Many people take this issue very seriously: next month, the American Association of Marriage Counselors will hold a three-day conference on the nature of orgasm...
...Elmer Gantry and All Quiet on the Western Front were banned in Boston; today Supreme Court decisions have had the net effect of allowing everything to be published except "hardcore pornography." It is hard to remember that as recently as 1948, in The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer felt compelled to reduce his favorite four letters to three ("fug"), or that there was ever any fuss about poor old Lady Chatterley's Lover and his worshipful deification of sexual organs. John O'Hara, whose writing until recently was criticized as "sex-obsessed," appears positively Platonic alongside Calder...
Divorced. Norman Mailer, 39, novelist (The Naked and the Dead); by his second wife, Jeanne Campbell Mailer, 34, daughter of the Duke of Argyll, and columnist for her grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook; on grounds of incompatibility; after 20 months of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...
Like Norman Mailer, Goodman has chosen to become a personality as well as a writer. Unlike Mailer, he has not concentrated on this sideline to the detriment of his creative work. Goodman continues to produce books of dissent which have enormous social value for America...
Intellectuals are rare enough in U.S politics for madcap Mailer to be welcome, even as a candidate for Mayor of New York City. But he should know by now that you don't win votes by going round talking about "the corroded vaults of my ambitious and yellow jaundiced soul...