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Society
Living like heroes
- 15 November 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 29 September 1961 The American writer Norman Mailer, who died on 10 November, visited Britain in 1961 to launch his book, Advertisements for Myself. He was interviewed for the New Statesman by the philosopher Richard Wollheim. In the resulting question-and-answer session, Mailer revealed himself to be an individualistic hellraiser with an alarming taste for violence, a hip philosophy of physical action and more ego than id. Selected by Robert Taylor
Environment
Brave new world
- 08 November 2007
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Taken from The New Statesman 17 January 1959 Britain’s first nuclear power station opened on the Cumberland coast nearly half a century ago. Soon after its arrival, Geoffrey Goodman, then a correspondent on the News Chronicle, wrote this insightful article on its social significance in the New Statesman. He shows how the new breed of graduate scientists and technocrats, and the more traditional group of manual workers, also vital to nuclear energy’s success, were coming to terms with one another. Selected by Robert Taylor
Society
D H Lawrence as I knew him
- 01 November 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 13 August 1955 D H Lawrence, one of Britain's most controversial writers, was only 44 when he died from tuberculosis in 1930. His widow, Frieda, lived for another 26 years but her husband, a man she once described as "lonely, uncompromising and fearless", dominated her thoughts for the rest of her life. In this review of Harry T Moore's biography The Intelligent Heart written for the New Statesman a year before her own death, Frieda pays poignant tribute to Lawrence's memory. Selected by Robert Taylor
Society
Being prohibited
- 18 October 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 21 April 1956 Doris Lessing, who has just won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 87, wrote for this magazine for half a century. In this wry article, she describes how she was banned in 1956 from entering the apartheid South Africa, a country she was not allowed to visit for the next 39 years. The ostensible reason for refusing her entry was not her association with the Communist Party, but that she was born in Persia, and therefore deemed to be an “Asiatic” Selected by Robert Taylor
Society
The man who can't be wrong
- 11 October 2007
Taken from The New Statesman5 May 1956 The Parliamentary Labour Party used to contain many more idealistic and independent characters than it does today. One of the most prominent was Sydney Silverman. Although he never held government office, he will always be remembered for his long and single-minded campaign that led to the 1965 suspension of capital punishment. In this friendly portrait, his fellow Labour MP J P W Mallalieu paid homage to a legendary figure. Selected by Robert Taylor
Society
Burma - free and socialist
- 04 October 2007
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Taken from The New Statesman 28 February 1948
Society
Did we double-cross the Arabs?
- 27 September 2007
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From our archive - 40 years on from the Balfour Declaration
