63.20

63.16–63.20

Responses and Reactions I-VI. Bi-monthly column. Commentary (December 1962–October 1963). Commentary in first five columns on Martin Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim. See 62.22.

October, 320–321. Mailer departs from Buber in his final column for Commentary and discusses the minority status of Jews and Negroes. Rpt: Except for introductory paragraph, this column comprises the bulk of the untitled preface to “The Tenth Presidential Paper— Minorities” in 63.37; and in The Idol and the Octopus (68.11), where it is partially reprinted in two sub-chapters, “On Minorities” and “Action for Minorities.”