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- Title: The Time of His/Our Time: Chance Meetings with Norman Mailer (Tributes) (In Memoriam)
- Author : The Mailer Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 178 KB
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I SIT DOWN TO WRITE THIS BRIEF FOOTNOTE to the time of his time just as the TV series Mad Men begins its run on BBC4 bracketed by a slew of documentaries recalling the rise of Madison Avenue in the early sixties. How remote it all seems and yet it was right then and there that the greed game was given a new set of rules and just about the time when I began fumbling around looking for a place to stand. All my Cambridge peers who had a yen to be "creative," rather than to go into the Foreign Office (like they were s'posed to), were dashing off to learn how to follow in the footsteps of the king of Madison Avenue, a professional Englishman in New York by the name of David Ogilvy who was responsible for Shweppervescence, the Man in the Hathaway shirt, and other such towering contributions to western civilization. It's no accident that my discovery of Norman Mailer came with Advertisements for Myself--the title itself his own wry comment on the buttoned down hubris of those who were busy inventing "the big idea" on Madison Avenue. I dimly remember what a profound effect it had on me and since I started to reflect on my odd, brief relationship with Norman, I've been trying to figure out why.
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