Norman Mailer: Works and Days

A Shaky Start

Time, 27 October 1967

Time, 27 October 1967.

WASHINGTON’S scruffy Ambassador Theater, normally a pad for psychedelic frolics, was the scene of an unscheduled scatological solo last week in support of the peace demonstrations. Its anti-star was Author Norman Mailer, who proved even less prepared to explain Why Are We in Viet Nam? than his current novel bearing that title.

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Work: A Shaky Start
Source: Time, 27 October 1967
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