'Angry Americans' Air Dissent on British TV
A Reuters report on a British television program, produced by Kenneth Tynan, that gathered Mailer with a panel of American "dissenters"; Mailer derided the "boring, cancerous state of American life."
“‘Angry Americans’ Air Dissent on British TV.” Article by William Harcourt, Reuters News Service correspondent. Washington Post, 28 January 1960.
The program, produced by the English critic Kenneth Tynan, featured C. Wright Mills, John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Hutchins, Mailer, Mort Sahl, Jules Feiffer, Allen Ginsberg, Alger Hiss, Alexander King, and Norman Thomas. Mailer used the platform to deride the “boring, cancerous state of American life”.