People (Time, 6 November 1972)
A Time 'People' squib quoting Mailer at a rowdy UC Berkeley event ('A little bit of rape is good for a man's soul') and reporting his remark that McGovern was the only man superior to him - which Mailer protested as out of context.
A squib in Time’s “People” section (6 November 1972) quotes Mailer at a rowdy University of California, Berkeley event — at which someone threw a burning jockstrap onto the stage — as saying, “A little bit of rape is good for a man’s soul.” He is also reported to have said that “[Democratic presidential candidate George] McGovern is the only man superior to me,” a remark Mailer protested as out of context in a later letter to Time.