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...first, everything seemed to go wrong for Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 37. Last month, in quick succession, Mailer got involved in a Manhattan nightclub brawl (the charge: disorderly conduct), stabbed his wife Adele after a long, late party (the charge: felonious assault), and was promptly committed to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric observation. But soon things began to go right for him. Released from Bellevue as a sane man, Mailer went to court, happily heard the disorderly conduct charge dismissed. Though he still faces a hearing on the knifing charge, the only witness against...
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TIME'S assurance that the critical reputation of Norman Mailer has declined since The Naked and the Dead [Dec. 5] needs correction. Many critics and fellow writers feel that Mailer's work is of continuing significance and brilliance and that he is one of the few young writers who have not "fallen hard...
...This Happens . . ." Later that afternoon Adele Mailer described the details of that scrape to the police; she readily admitted that her husband had stabbed her with a 2-inch penknife soon after the party when she was preparing for bed. "He was depressed. He just came at me with a funny look in his eye. He didn't say a word. There was no reason. He just looked at me. Then he stabbed me." That night detectives found Mailer, neatly dressed and unshaven, sitting on a hospital bench near his wife's room...
...felony court a police psychiatrist urged that the author be committed to a mental institution. He was "having an acute paranoid breakdown with delusional thinking, and [was] both homicidal and suicidal." Protested Mailer: "It is very important to me not to be sent to some mental institution. I'm a sane man. If this happens, for the rest of my life my work will be considered as the work of a man with a disordered mind. My pride is that as a sane man I can explore areas of experience that other men are afraid of. I insist...