[Ads-l] Request help accessing 1983 Mail on Sunday article about Michael Foot by Norman Mailer

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

I received a request to trace a quotation attributed to British
politician Michael Foot. According to a June 1983 article in the "New
Statesman" the quotation appeared in "The Mail on Sunday" within an
article by Norman Mailer. Here is the target text:

[Begin excerpt]
‘Foot had a cogent point of view at least. It said we are not here in
this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to
serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to
provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and
more crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great
purpose on earth and if you ask me about those insoluble economic
problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I
would answer "to hell with them. The top is greedy and mean and they
will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do".'
[End excerpt]

Database company Gale has an archive of "The Mail on Sunday"
(1982–2011). If you have access to this archive, it would be helpful
if you executed a search for a key phrase such as "top is greedy and
mean".

If you could send me a PDF together with the precise citation data
that would be great.

The goal is to obtain a complete and accurate citation including
newspaper name, newspaper location, date, article title, article
author, page number, column number, section, and database name.

Thanks for your help
Garson

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