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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