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55.8

“Mailer, Norman.” In Twentieth Century Authors: First Supplement, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz, 628-29. New York: H.W. Wilson. Autobiographical entry. Mailer makes a number of memorable statements in this sketch, which he wrote in December 1952, including his statement that “the peculiar juxtaposition of a Brooklyn culture and a Harvard culture have had the most external importance I could name in making me want to write.” He also states: “I have long suffered from an inability to combine the best of two quite separate attitudes about the writing of novels; briefly, the romantic and the realist.” Finally, he notes that “the virtue I should most like to achieve as a writer is to be genuinely disturbing,” and to “serve as the gadfly to complacency, institutions, and the dead weight of public taste.”
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56.13

4 April, 5. Letters to the columnist and his responses. Karl L. Ekstand complains about Mailer’s egotism, to which Mailer replies: “Let others profit by my unseemly self-absorption, and so look to improve their own characters.” Rpt: 59.13 (partial).
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56.17

2 May, 5. Comment on Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” Includes Sergius O’Shaughnessy’s poem, “The Drunk’s Bebop and Chowder,” from The Deer Park (55.4). Rpt: 59.13. See 56.26.
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56.25

====“The Man Who Studied Yoga.” In New Short Novels 2, 1-29. New York: Ballantine, early May, simultaneously as a softcover.====
Novella (with brief prefatory comment on unnumbered page facing p. 1) intended as preface to a cycle of eight interlocking novels (The Deer Park (55.4) was the only novel of the cycle to be published). One of only a couple of times uses an omniscient narrator in fiction, the others being “Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out” (58.4) and The Castle in the Forest (07.10). Rpt: 59.13 (with revised and expanded preface), 67.11, 82.19, 98.7. See 58.4.
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56.26

“A Public Notice by Norman Mailer.” Village Voice, 9 May, 12. A paid statement on Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” in which Mailer reverses his negative comments on the play given in his 2 May column (56.17). The statement contains Mailer’s first published statement of his personal belief in a limited God. Herbert Gold claimed in a 10 November article in the Nation that Mailer was “fired” from the Voice for what he wrote about “Godot.” Daniel Wolf, editor of the Voice, denied this in an 8 December letter to the Nation. Rpt: 59.13 (minus prefatory “Advertiser’s Note” in which Mailer explains that he has paid for this notice “rather than embarrass editorial caution by asking it to be printed otherwise.”)
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57.1

’s most celebrated and castigated essay is also one of the most anthologized since World War II. It is usually reprinted with “Reflections on Hipsterism” (58.1), a follow-up discussion of the original essay.
Rpt: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men, edited by Gene Feldman and Max Gartenberg. New York: Citadel Press, 29 May 1958; Voices of Dissent: A Collection of Articles from “Dissent” Magazine. New York: Grove Press, after 15 October, 1958; 59.8a, 59.13, 98.7 (partial), 13.1. See 56.16, 58.4a, 83.12, and James Baldwin’s response, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy,” Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (New York: Dial, 1961); 13.2, 219-224.
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57.2

“Mailer Finishes First Stage Work.” Article by Louis Calta. New York Times, 5 December, 47. Mailer tells Calta that he has finished a stage version of his novel, The Deer Park (55.4), and it is being read by a Broadway producer. He says the play is in four acts, calls for twelve characters and runs three hours. See 59.11, 60.4, 67.13.
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58.1

“Reflections on Hipsterism.” Dissent 5 (winter), 73-81. Response to “The White Negro” (57.1) by Jean Malaquais and Ned Polsky with Mailer’s counterpoint. Rpt: As “Reflections on Hip” in 59.8a, 59.13.
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58.2

“Mike Wallace Asks: Norman Mailer.” New York Post, 24 and 25 July. Excerpts from a longer interview done in May or June, focusing on sex, morality and The Deer Park (55.4). The first of several antagonistic interviews with Wallace. See 58.7, 77.7.
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58.3

“Norman Mailer Answers Gregory.” Letter to the editor. New York Post, 25 August. Denial of accusations about Mailer’s conduct in a restaurant made by Paul Gregory, producer of film version of The Naked and the Dead (48.2), in Archer Winsten’s 11 August Post column. Rpt: 59.13. See 58.5.
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58.4

=====“Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out.” Partisan Review 25 (fall), 519-40. Story.=====
Original title: “The Time of the Evil Saint.” Told from omniscient perspective, about Marion Faye of The Deer Park (55.4) in Provincetown. Rpt: 59.13 (with subtitle, “Prologue to a Long Novel”), 67.11, 82.19. See 56.25, 13.2, 235-39.
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58.4a

“ABC-TV Bars Norman Mailer from the Ben Hecht Show.” Article-interview by Malcolm Logan. New York Post, 13 November. Scheduled to appear on this television program on this date, was removed by Al Hollander, the station program manager, who said he wanted guests from outside the literary and theatrical worlds. Mailer said he believed he was removed because he and Hecht were planning to discuss “The White Negro” (57.1), the beat generation and sex. “My guess,” he said, “is they decided the article was just too hot to handle, but I’m just guessing.” Mailer told Hollander that he was not taking himself off: “Well, let’s have it clear. You’re disinviting me. I’m not taking myself off the show.”
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58.4b

“Hip Mailer Talks to Orwell Forum; Defines American Beatnik Generation.” John C. Wellington, Yale Daily News, 9 December 1958. Wearing a beard and sitting cross-legged on the stage of the Yale Art Gallery auditorium, Mailer answered questions about “The White Negro” (57.1), hipsters and beatniks. The beatniks, he said, were partially a result of the “oppressive” life of the Negro in America, who looked for new means of expression in language and action to combat it. “This life is not casual. But it is brave, as the beatniks live with danger. It is not a cheap or passive decision.” The creative powers of people were curtailed, and the new life the beats lead is necessary, even if it is “somewhat insulting and mocking” to an ordinary person. The inner life of hipsters, he continued “is different than going to an analyst. It is going against the state. Going against what is socially acceptable.” He went on to say that the country “is getting sicker. Television plays are phony, filled with lies.” He also blamed the lack of creativity on the Cold War.
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58.5

Letter to the editor, Contact (San Francisco) 1, pp. 97–98. Mailer responds to a request for a review of the film version of The Naked and the Dead (48.2) by noting that he doesn’t have time. He offers instead his letter to the New York Post (58.3) about his disagreements with the film’s director. Contact publishes Mailer’s note and the New York Post letter. See Mailer’s reaction to the film, 13.2, 240.
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58.6

Statement for class record. In Harvard College, Class of 1943: Fifteenth Anniversary Report, 148. Cambridge: Harvard University. Mailer’s 157-word statement summarizes his publishing activities from 1953 to 1958. In the first half of the statement, Mailer speaks of his ambition and “the slapping [sic] of one’s creative rage by our most subtle and clear totalitarian time, politely called the time of conformity.” In the “First Advertisement for Myself,” the opening essay of Advertisements for Myself (59.13), Mailer notes that “slapping” should have been “sapping” and concludes that “what I was trying to say was simply, ‘The shits are killing us.’” See 49.4, 53.5, 83.59.
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58.7

“Norman Mailer.” Interview by Mike Wallace. In Mike Wallace Asks, edited by Charles Preston and Edward A. Hamilton, 26–27. New York: Simon and Schuster. Excerpts from Wallace’s 5 March 1957 “Night Beat” television program; mainly concerned with Mailer’s views on sex and censorship. Two brief excerpts from the book appeared in the New York Post, July 24 and 25, 1958, presumably just before or after the book appeared. See 58.2, 73.19, 77.7, 13.2, 217-18.
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59.10

“Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room.” Big Table 3 (autumn-winter), 88-100. Essay in which Mailer appraises the writing of James Jones, William Styron, Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren, J.D. Salinger, Paul Bowles, Vance Bourjaily, Chandler Brossard, Gore Vidal, Anatole Broyard, Myron Kaufmann, Calder Willingham, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Herbert Gold. Rpt: It is difficult to say if this essay appeared in Big Table before Advertisements for Myself (59.13) appeared, but Mailer said that he sent Big Table editor Paul Carroll the galleys of 59.13 for use in his magazine. Carroll, Mailer said, came up with the title. Rpt: 13.1. See 63.8, 63.40, 13.2, 247-52; Myrick Land, The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963; Rpt: San Francisco: Lexicos, 1983.
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59.11

“Scenes from ‘The Deer Park’” [scenes 7 and 10]. Partisan Review 26 (fall), 527–534. Dramatic fragment. Rpt: 60.4, and in a greatly revised form in 67.13. Other scenes appear in 59.13. See 57.2, 13.2, 224–225.
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59.13

Original working title: “The Hip and the Square: A Miscellany.” Republished with preface by Mailer. New York: Berkley, December 1976 (76.16). Preface reprinted (minus first paragraph) as “An Advertisement Advertised” in 82.16. Dedication: “I dedicate this book to the memory of Anne Mailer Kessler (1889-1958) and to David Kessler and to my father Isaac Barnett (‘Barney’) Mailer.” Portions of this miscellany appeared in periodicals at approximately the same time the book was published, a tactic that Mailer used to herald most of his major books from 1959 on. Rpt: 59.12; all of the short stories appear in 67.11 and 82.19; several selections appear in 98.7 and 13.1. See 59.8a, 59.10, 59.14, 13.2, 242–258.
== Bibliography ==
* Negative.
* Positive. Rpt: Kazin (1962), Lucid (1971).
* Positive. See 61.23.
* Positive. Rpt: Lennon (1986).
* Positive. Rpt: Wolf and Fancher (1962). See 56.1–56.17.
* Mixed. Rpt: Lucid (1971), Bloom (1986), Vidal (1993). See 60.3.
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* Rpt: Baldwin (1961), Lucid (1971), Braudy (1972). See 57.1.
* Rpt: In Castronovo’s Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s that Made American Culture, 99–109. New York: Continuum, 2004.
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* Rpt: Lennon (1986).
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59.14

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Watershed essay on the struggle to publish The Deer Park (55.4). The November Esquire appeared just before Advertisements for Myself (59.13). Rpt: 55.5; as “Fourth Advertisement for Myself: The Last Draft of The Deer Park” in 59.13; 76.14, 13.1. See 13.2, 179–82.
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59.15

“2 Symposium Authors Say Write for Elite, Not Masses.” Article-interview by Dorthy Collin. The Daily Iowan, 5 December, 1. Report on the first day of a symposium, “The Writer in a Mass Culture,” co-sponsored by Esquire magazine and the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, 4-5 December. Mailer is quoted on the corruption of American writers by the mass media. See 59.16, 59.17, 59.18, 83.10.
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59.16

“Interest in Books Flowers Where the Tall Corn Grows.” Article-interview by Van Allen Bradley. Chicago News, 7 December. Another report on the 4-5 December University of Iowa symposium. Mailer says the writer’s task is to “build a bridge across the no man’s land of the mass media and reach the serious reader who cannot stand bad books.” See 59.15, 59.17, 59.18, 83.10.
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59.17

“Critic At-Large: Mailer’s Apology.” Article-interview by Hoke Norris. Chicago Sun-Times, 10 December, Sec. 2, p. 26. Discussion of the University of Iowa symposium at which the film version of The Naked and the Dead (48.2) was shown. See 59.15, 59.16, 59.18, 83.10.
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59.18

“Eggheads in the Tall Corn.” Article by unidentified writer. Newsweek, 28 December, 65. Final report on the 4-5 December symposium at the University of Iowa at which Mailer, Dwight Macdonald, Mark Harris and Ralph Ellison discussed literature and culture. The symposium sessions were moderated by Paul Engle of the university and Arnold Gingrich, editor-publisher of Esquire. Mailer said that the totalitarian threats of the 1930s were less terrifying than the current “conformity, monotony and boredom.” See 59.15, 59.16, 59.17, 83.10.
File:1959 Iowa.jpg|(Left to right) Paul Engle, Ralph Ellison, Mark Harris, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Mailer, and (standing) Arnold Gingrich. (December 4, 1959, Iowa State)
File:1959 Iowa 2.jpg|Norman Mailer and Ralph Ellison (1959) Front row: Donald Kaufmann and Edmund Skellings, the University of Iowa, December 4-5.
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59.19

“Is Modern Man Meaningless.” Article by Mary Perot Nichols. Village Voice, 30 December, 1, 3. Report on an 18 December symposium at Judson Memorial Church, New York City, sponsored by Dissent, titled “Happy Critics and a Rigged Society.” Joining Mailer on the panel were Judson pastor Rev. Howard R. Moody, Rev. Stephen Chinlund, Irving Howe and Harold Rosenberg, all of whom are quoted. Chinlund visited Mailer when he was confined at Bellevue in December 1960.
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59.2

“Hip, Hell, and the Navigator: An Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Richard G. Stern and Robert F. Lucid. Western Review 23 (winter), 101-9. Mailer’s first extended comment on his belief in an embattled God in one of his most important interviews. Rpt: 59.13, 82.16 (partial), 88.6, 98.7 (partial). See “The Psychology of Machines” in Of a Fire on the Moon (71.1) for a continuation of Mailer’s discussion in this interview of the “Navigator,” the ego’s agent in the unconscious. See also 75.2, 75.11, 82.15, 83.45, 89.11, 13.2, 237-39.
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59.3

“Capote, Mailer and Miss Parker.” Article by Janet Winn. New Republic, 9 February, 27-28. Summarizes David Susskind’s 18 January “Open End” television program on which Mailer, Truman Capote and Dorothy Parker discussed Jack Kerouac, the Beats and writing in general. See 59.4, 73.22, 77.7, 13.2, 244-45.
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59.5

“Ingenue.” Letter to the editor. Village Voice, 11 March, 4. Mailer criticizes Marta Curro’s 7 March Village Voice review of Millicent Brower’s novel, Ingenue. He says that “letting one writer-actress revise [sic] the work of another is like leaving hashish on an assassin.” Brower (originally Brauer) was a distant cousin of Mailer’s, and he knew her from childhood. Her husband, Harvey Anhalt, typed NAD (48.2); and she was the lead in Mailer’s 1947 experimental film, “Millie’s Dream.” See 13.2, 96.
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59.8

“An Eye on Picasso.” Provincetown Annual, August, 27–28. Essay. Rpt: 59.13 (with one small change), and in Beat Coast East: An Anthology of Rebellion, edited by Stanley Fisher. New York: Excelsior, 1960. See 61.10, 95.37, 95.38.
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59.8a

This often-reprinted pamphlet is almost always given a 1957 date in bibliographies, an unlikely date in that the essay is followed in the pamphlet by the 1958 piece, “Reflections on Hipsterism” (58.1). A 23 August 1959 Chicago Sun-Times review of the second (50¢) City Lights edition, and Mailer’s 30 April 1959 letter to City Lights editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, indicates a 1959 City Lights publication date. In addition, the list of available City Lights publications in the 50¢ edition contains only 1958 publications. Rpt: 57.1, 59.13, 98.7 (partial), Voices of Dissent: A Collection of Articles from Dissent. New York: Grove, 1958.
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59.9

“Buddies, or the Hole in the Summit: An Apocryphal and Interrupted Transcript.” Village Voice, 16 September, 1, 4-5. One-act play, a conversation between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Rpt: 59.13 (without subtitle and with a slightly different accompanying note). See 92.8.
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60.1

“A Program for the Nation.” Dissent 7 (winter), 67-70. Symposium contribution. Consists of five suggestions for debate in the 1960 presidential campaign, written “at the very beginning of 1960” in response to an Esquire questionnaire, but sent instead to Dissent. Rpt: 63.37 in a slightly abridged form. Mailer says in “Appendix B—Projects and Places” that it was “written at two or three in the morning in February 1959.” Social critic Paul Goodman called Mailer a “chump” for giving qualified support to President Kennedy in the essay, which led to Mailer writing a searing letter to the editors. See 13.2, 306–07; 14.3, 289–90.
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60.10a

“Mailer Directs Group Tour of Mailer World.” Article by Richard Holbrooke. Brown Daily Herald, 18 November. Report on Mailer’s 17 November talk at Brown University on Literature, politics, metaphysics and sex. He said, “I come to you to bring the existentialist word,” and commented on Fitzgerald, Beckett and James Farrell.
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60.10b

“Norman Mailer Leads 300 on Tour of Own Odd World.” Article by unidentified writer. Providence Journal, 18 November. A second report on Mailer’s appearance at Brown on 17 November. The audience was described as “bewildered, amused,” especially after he announced, “I’m running for mayor of New York next year.”
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60.10c

“Norman Mailer Arrested Here in Stabbing of Wife at Party.” Article by unidentified writer. New York Times, 22 November, 25. Report of Mailer’s arrest at 10:30 p.m. on 21 November at University Hospital on Second Avenue in Manhattan where his wife Adele went for major surgery after he stabbed her with a penknife at approximately 5 a.m. on 20 November. See 13.2, 276–94.
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60.10d

“Norman Mailer to Undergo Test in Wife Stabbing.” New York Herald Post wire service article, 22 November. Diagnosed as having "an acute paranoid breakdown with delusional thinking" by Dr. Conrad Rosenberg, Mailer challenged the report as “gratuitous and presumptuous. My pride is that as a sane man I can explore areas of experience that other men are afraid of.” He told the magistrate, “I insist I am sane.” The police found a two and half inch pocket knife in his pocket at the time of arrest.
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60.10e

“Hold Norman Mailer in Stabbing of Wife.” Article by Leeds Moberley. New York Daily News, 23 November. Brief report on Mailer’s arrest. He was quoted: “I refuse to answer your questions—I won’t answer anything you ask me.” He demanded that a call be put in to his attorney. Adele Mailer told doctors that she had fallen on a broken bottle.
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60.10f

“Norman Mailer Sent to Bellevue.” Article by Frank Kelly. New York Herald Tribune, 23 November, 1, 9. Long report on Mailer being sent by a magistrate to a psychiatric ward, and his earlier appearance that day on a WNTA-TV program, where he was interviewed by Mike Wallace about his intention to run for mayor. A partial list of those attending the party on 20 November at the Mailers’ apartment at 250 West 94th Street is given, as well as a longer version of his court statement. Protesting being sent to Bellevue, he said, “If this happens, for the rest of my life my work will be considered as the work of a man with a disordered mind.” Mailer was released after 17 days.
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60.10g

“Norman Mailer Sent to Bellevue over His Protest in Wife Knifing.” Article by Jack Roth. New York Times, 23 November, 26. Short article that includes a quote from the medical report on Mailer being “both homicidal and suicidal. His admission to a hospital is urgently advised.”
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60.10h

“Of Time and the Rebel.” Article by unidentified writer. Time, 5 December, 16-17. Summary article that includes comments Mailer made to Mike Wallace on is TV program two days after the stabbing. “The knife to a juvenile delinquent is very meaningful. You see. It’s his sword—his manhood.”
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60.11

“Birdland Head Drops Charge against Mailer.” Article by unidentified writer. New York Post, 20 December, 9. Mailer is quoted briefly in this account over a bar tab dispute. See 60.10, 61.20, 91.38, and “The Shadow of the Crime: A Word from the Author” in 98.7.
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60.2

“‘Angry Americans’ Air Dissent on British TV.” Article by William Harcourt, Reuters News Service correspondent. Washington Post, 28 January. Report on British television program produced by Kenneth Tynan and featuring the following American “dissenters”: C. Wright Mills, John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Hutchins, Mailer, Mort Sahl, Jules Feiffer, Allen Ginsberg, Alger Hiss, Alexander King and Norman Thomas. Mailer derided the “boring, cancerous state of American life.”
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60.3

“The Shiny Enemies.” Letter to the editor. Nation, 30 January, inside front cover. Friendly response, with one sharp correction, to Gore Vidal’s 2 January review of Advertisements for Myself (59.13). Vidal’s review is reprinted in his collection, United States: Essays, 1952-1992 (New York: Random House, 1993). Rpt. 14.3.
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