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...e with Brigid Brophy, who questioned his use of the word “rendered” in the phrase “politics rendered every pride” in her 23 May review of ''The Prisoner

...eans in its common use to disregard, to fail to see. So the real world, my phrase for the “material world” may actually be quite unreal and composed of i

...ution. The ''Am-Lira'' was also defined as the “currency of occupation,” a phrase that carries both positive and pejorative connotations and serves as a meta

...ler. Santa’s green bag of presents changed to Mailer’s green book, and the phrase in the middle “Happy Holiday” changed to “The Hip Have Faith”. For

...thick liquid, an ''etwas''{{refn|Something.}} (sentence, thought, vagrant phrase) rises to the surface, breaks, then settles—So maybe there’s a thing ha

...an Uncle Tom, and before their third fight called Frazier “the Gorilla,” a phrase whose ugliness is a stain on Ali’s legacy. ...sn’t ready to embrace Ali until he was “teddy-beared up.” It’s a memorable phrase, and Van Peebles was correct. The same people who called Ali a draft-dodger

Advertisements for Mailer’s books carried this last phrase for many years. Mailer received the same kind of accolade in the ''New York

...leaving them alone, sometimes changing a preposition, sometimes cutting a phrase or adding one, but I felt more like a musician than a writer, as if I had a

...eaving them alone, sometimes changing a preposition, some- times cutting a phrase or adding one, but I felt more like a musician than a writer, as if I had a

...o me, except that you mention it in an altogether different way, using the phrase approvingly. The character around Kennedy who said it was of course using t

...the most abject buffoonery and the most self-denying discipline. The same phrase applies to Norman Mailer, novelist, with perhaps even more force.

...o, and was our hero, our man out on a limb talking a blue streak,{{efn|The phrase “out on a limb talking a blue streak,” or something close to it, is bor

...e was noticing the way she constructed her sentences, the last word of one phrase seeming to provide the impetus for the next, he was nonetheless paying atte

...’t clearly explain my feeling: I think I might perhaps put it, in a Jewish phrase which Lindner will understand, that it was not quite Kosher. Or, to put it

One is tempted to modify the introductory phrase used in [[w:Franz Werfel|Franz Werfel]]’s novel about the French peasant ...to the will but to the imagination and its language is metaphor. That, for example, is what [[w:Pope John XXIII|Pope John XXIII]] understood when he convened

...potential of the orgasm.{{efn|The ''OED'' cites Reich as having coined the phrase “sexual revolution” in his 1945 book of the same ...ned fact.” This definition links factoids to the concept of the Big Lie, a phrase coined by Adolf Hitler in ''Mein Kampf'' to describe a falsehood repeated s

...him so much. His greatness as a writer goes without saying, but to copy a phrase I’ve heard him use, “he was a stand-up guy.”

...the land of endless possibility.” On a level beyond irony it is a very apt phrase for a certain aspect of American life. Possibility, if you like, is the sub

...o not exist in French. Malaquais navigates these instances gracefully. For example: there is no word for “giggle.” So, it becomes “''un petit rire''” ...sa molle voix de Meridional'',” which is an exact translation of Mailer’s phrase: “I’m telling you, he said to Croft, in his soft Southern voice.”{{sf

...es that we experience in reading this book. The letters to his family, for example, are extraordinarily close and affectionate. At the memorial service for Ma ...w they try to compensate for their weaknesses. He said that Hemingway, for example, couldn’t deal with the long sentence and so ended up writing and creatin

...exts take interior factors, the writer’s private thoughts or emotions, for example, into consideration. Philip Bufithis draws the following distinction betwee ...mental rights and dignity were also taken from them. The repetition of the phrase “for many days” emphasizes the terrible relentlessness of their punishm

...hink now that history is a madhouse? Or, to cite again Joyce's much-quoted phrase, a nightmare? In that case, why would they not want to wake up from it? I m

...ler, in five days, could only sample and speculate. Mailer, concluded, for example, that Alaska had the “best air” in America, and this was true most of t “Vietnam” appears but once—in the book’s final phrase, “Vietnam, hot

...oon'' (1932) with Mailer’s ''Advertisements for Myself'' (1959), using the phrase “authorship and alienation.” This suggested to me the theme of writer/a ...er stage” sounds familiar to those of us who value and teach his work. The phrase brings us face to face with the complex relationship between Mailer’s fic

In the passage cited above, for example, when Mailer writes that Ali is “the first psychologist of the body,” M ...vocative exaggeration, though he does equivocate somewhat by including the phrase “begin to have.” Mailer’s notion, however, contains a serious claim:

...employs various echoes, stylizations, and perhaps parody of Hemingway. For example, Sergius O’Shaugnessy, the narrator of “The Time of Her Time,” teache ...l came over the earth.” (I perceive an echo of biblical style in that last phrase.) Historians had concluded that “man was never so close to finding his so

...confirmed by all these wonderful incredibly informative panels. I mean for example, who knew about those Lipton journals? I am getting myself a copy of that! ...ire when he actually was giving me a compliment and I did not know it. For example, there was an evening a few years ago at a dinner at Aunt Barbara’s of he

...pacts both the film’s narrative structure and its style. To borrow a catch phrase from contemporary pop culture, the film is a ''hot mess'', a casualty of it As an example of the film’s overarching conceptual failure, consider the scene near the

...he had been for twenty years, had been lost with a wife. It was a Pointed Phrase, said with the tone which can lead to literary interview: ''Mr. Mailer, tha ...–usually his words did not require emphasizing gestures — and with a trite phrase, “so much tradition, history”? I wished I were hearing polite kindness

...t, because they’re all short-waisted and terrific in bed.” This notion, an example of Brooks’s bumptious marketing of ethnic caricature, would transcend the ...er gives a Jewish college girl her first orgasm by means of sodomy and the phrase ‘dirty little Jew’” (“Last Girl in Larchmont”). Well, yes. But Ma

...e end of history” (to use [[w:Francis Fukiyama|Francis Fukiyama]]’s famous phrase) we are still plunged into unresolved history. Therefore, the novel’s for ...ality to men in a form they can master”{{sfn|Adorno|1978|p=81}}{{efn| This phrase comes from Brecht’s polemic around the ''nature'' of realism with [[w:Geo

...nk of ''Casablanca'' with so many rich scenes that have become iconic. For example, the scene that takes place at the gambling table, when Rick suggests to th ...it doesn’t work out, we’ll bring in the pros.” I thought that was a handy phrase and I have never forgotten it. Because I was athletic, I threw my two cents

...er I into the numeral 1. He shows where a curve of a line echoes a turn of phrase, a twist in the road when the ego turns into the id.

...successful. That way, ideally, his psychic density, if I may use a private phrase, would be equal to mine—and so I could write from within his head with co

...has blurted out some sarcasm to her — “That’s how southerners think,” for example. She gives as good as she gets, and they tend to do it in front of me all t ...y a waterfront apartment where NM can stay. Several times she has used the phrase “rattling around that big house” in P-Town to describe how she feels ab

...n get released? He got released for other books, for the Picasso book, for example. ...question. I can’t remember how I wanted to phrase it, or how he wanted to phrase it, but I remember that’s where the biggest argument took place, and Ludm

...dorf Towers is also a figurative descent to a kind of Dantean hell—another example of Mailer’s use of the Age of Faith in opposition to the current faith in ...f manners, hardly fits such a definition. Undoubtedly, Mailer’s qualifying phrase (“in a funny way”) implies that he has attempted a new direction—comb

For example, on one of my Barbie dolls, her knee came apart and her leg was dragging, a I remember, for example, him saying that he loved Science Fiction, which always was amazing. He’d

...y blunt bohemian hedonism and, yes, a full-fledged narcissism to boot. The phrase “to be honest,” however, dominates the semantics of their conversation. ...n. She shrewdly uses them as a springboard toward future undertakings. For example, still trying to decipher the circumstances of her mother’s sudden appear

...winded too, as you know, and had his periods where he went on and on, for example, his 266-page digression to Uruguay in ''Harlot’s Ghost''. It’s about 9 ...l subtitle for ''The Executioner’s Song'' was called a “true-life novel”—a phrase he dropped from subsequent editions of the novel.

...om they liked or disliked in small ways, for myself alone (the inevi­table phrase of all tear-filled confessions); no, I was a node in a new electronic lands ...some­ what more mature version of the White Negro, has been held up as an example of Mailer’s hope that the individual can survive in a corrupt and hostile

...me. It is Shirky, by the way, who is widely credited with popularizing the phrase “the Internet runs on love.”{{sfn|Garber|2010|loc=¶11}} ...g micro-donations for the recent natural disasters in Haiti and Japan, for example, or zeroing in on petty crooks or shoddy public service. No small achieveme

...n, though not always in ways he could sanction. The sexual revolution, for example, was not a moral shift he would take lightly; as a “sexologue,” as he o ...to mind — his protagonist’s very difficult, very American fourth wife, for example, and how his feeling for her runs parallel to his troubled, uneasy love for

...ood and the streets, in sex and drugs: “One’s condition on marijuana,” for example, “is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h ...voice that strives to find “the greatest intensity” in every sentence and phrase. If Mailer stylistically emulates Hemingway in certain ways, stylistically

...expect. I’d been to a lot of different academic conferences, the MLA, for example. There’s nobody greeting you when you go to the MLA with a bear hug! But, ...for me, unforgettable in their thoughtfulness. A couple of years ago, for example, I had forgotten to bring any money with me on the first day of one of our

When we parted, and I believe I never saw her again, she whispered a phrase not devoid of literary ambi­tion, “Mikey, you know the room is the trap ...up serve to reinforce the universal nature of his jumbled experience. For example, he vaguely re­members himself as a faceless part of the American Army in

...f the author, maybe even more so as atoms turn to bits.{{efn|I borrow this phrase from Nicholas {{harvtxt|Negroponte|1995|}}; it is the chief concern of his While attempts to represent the novel in a new way on the Web{{efn|For example, see ''[http://www.powermobydick.com Power Moby-Dick]'', the [http://thegol

...ight (the hero does not learn reincarnation from a woman, to take just one example), and since she lets her prejudices get in the way of her critical reading, ...r.</ref> Though Davis’ criticism of style — “there is hardly a distinctive phrase or metaphor, an unexpected choice of words” — has been debated even

<blockquote>. . . the little phrase, as soon as it struck his ear, had the power to liberate in him the room th an example of the art of the treatment, it is not characteristic, for it is written

...d they seem to rely a little too much on the scuttlebutt of reviewers. For example, she claims that ''Oswald’s Tale'' ({{date|1995}}) received almost unifor ...pends a hundred pages reviewing claims about this “uncharted territory” (a phrase he borrows from Eric Heyne). The overstated claim is not a criminal offense

...closer to Mailer’s generation, Edward Abbey and Christopher Hitchens, for example) who was most attuned among the Founders, as Joseph Ellis points out, to th ...War?'' and ''The Big Empty'' to further express his concerns publicly. One example, a sort of companion piece, is a long essay appearing in ''Playboy'' magazi

...lowed socially, was becoming downright harmless, sporting (in Morrow’s apt phrase) “Prospero's winkle.”{{sfn|Morrow|2008|p=94}} Otherwise, we are at oppo Mailer was instantly at home with frontier moods and manners. For example, Mailer arrived as a reputed barroom drinker. Alaska, especially Fairbanks,

In so doing, we are reflecting on ''time'' past—to use Eliot’s useful phrase from ''Four Quartets''. In pondering the life and significance of Mailer (1

What follows is a condensed example of the extended analysis and argument I offer in that book; specifically, h ...ems able to discuss manhood ''only'' through the language of violence. For example, he claims:

...gy,”{{efn|See Daniel {{harvtxt|Bell|1962}} for the original context of the phrase.}} it is likely that the opposite is more historically “true,” which is ...rce of progressive action. ''Executioner’s'' critique of “the system,” for example, is essentially Modernist in nature: Unlike its later counterparts, ''Execu

...sm. In our own century the literature of state Marxism, to suggest but one example, has exercised its totalitarian power. With ample justification theorists a ...iew of the hermetic tendencies in current theory. Using Paul de Man as his example of the “undisputed master of deconstruction in the United States,”{{sfn

...ould hear someone excoriate something we just had finished performing, for example, at the Studio, I would wonder if they had seen the same piece I had been i ...d, stormed straight up to me. As he approached I heard a strange hymn-like phrase thunder past me. “Here comes the Judge. Halleluhah.” Ho. Ho. Joke’s o

...m afraid he makes me the same way, at least when I’m with him. For a minor example Adele and I went with them to Puebla to see the town, got there at two PM, ...t as we get older, there seems to be a progressive failure of nerve (which phrase I just used in a letter to your father [Louis] this morning). When I wrote

...thing, more brutal than the parallel scene in the Gallagher flashback, for example. What mitigates reader sympathy for Gallagher, and throws some blame upon t ...haracters can be applied to those of Dos Passos as well. Joe Williams, for example, is a totally sympathetic charac­ter whose consistent misfortunes are brou

...t, “in one day—in a single hour—everything could’ve been arranged. The key phrase is, ‘Love others as you love yourself.’ And that’s all there is to it ...o them or to any possible resolution of them. On certain questions, as for example the question of guilt on the part of both murderers, Mailer follows a rough

I find myself reading ''[[Why Are We in Vietnam?]]'', to take a first example for discussion, as a ''tour de force'' through which Mailer was able to ris ...ty. The metaphoric significance of electromagnetism, in “Intro Beep 9” for example, is as pretentious as it is unintelligible. And the explanation of the narr