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From Project Mailer
Norman Mailer: Works and Days
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“Mailer Says Piety Dulls Moon Appeal.” AP wire story, 31 January. Mailer says that the astronauts are “tough men—daredevils,” but in their work for the space program, “suddenly they have to be priests.” He continues: NASA “succeeded in making the transcendental event of the 20th century boring.”