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That kind of collective work?with no profit, or any kind of individual reward, in prospect?made me feel that I belonged not merely in my immediate family at home, or even the big family of the village, but in something vaster and more significant: the land. It was that feeling that made me, on the way home at sunset, watch the evening scene with a rare warmth, recognizing an invisible bond of love and friendship with everything around me?smoke rolling down the valley, promising a delicious meal at the close of a village day, and perfect calm...
...friendship with God changed me a great deal. Only in defense of a just cause would I take up arms, so to speak. For now I felt I had stepped into a vaster and more beautiful world and my capacity for endurance redoubled. I felt I could stand the pressure whatever the magnitude of a given problem. My paramount object was to make people happy. To see a smile, to feel that another man's heart beat for joy was to me a source of immeasurable happiness. I identified with people's joys...
...more than two decades they moved north and west by the millions, black and white. The blacks constituted the vast majority, the greatest ethnic migration in American history. And they were Southern, too, perhaps the most quintessentially Southern of all. The North was confronted by a Southern invasion vaster by far than any General Lee ever mounted...
...shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast!" Poet Holmes was referring to mansions of the soul, but he might well have been prophesying today's pharaonic era of sports-stadium construction, in which city after city vies to encapsulate its populace in ever nobler temples and vaster domes...
Coming off a long string of successes in the nonfiction phase-second act if you please. This time around he has struck one of the main veins of the American consciousness with a biography of Marilyn Monroe, and he has mastered the art of eliciting a much vaster response with much less effort. Marilyn: a biography by Norman Mailer with pictures by the World's Greatest Photographers has made shock waves which have surpassed those the author is accustomed to creating in the literary pond, and has indeed touched the fancy of the masses...