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...gothics," romantic suspense stories or romantic biography would be more descriptive. Under any heading, the genre comprises one of the few boom areas in a generally depressed publishing industry. In the past year or so, sales have almost doubled. Three notable examples-Mary Stewart's Crystal Cave, Victoria Holt's Secret Woman and Elizabeth Goudge's Child from the Sea -all spent a comfortable winter on the bestseller lists. For top gothics, paperback sales-the real and durable market-can run into the millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Road to Manderley | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

John Grey Gorton is what Australians call a larrikin-a rough-hewn fellow who often embarrasses his colleagues. Elected Prime Minister in 1968 after the drowning of Harold Holt, Gorton rarely consulted Cabinet colleagues and totally ignored backbenchers from his Liberal Party (which, despite the name, is markedly conservative). When he proposed legislation last year to take away the states' powers over off-shore mining, his party colleagues refused to support him, and he was forced to make a humiliating retreat. Gorton's personal style was, to say the least, indiscreet. He once arrived late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Fall of the Larrikin | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...HOUSE ON JEFFERSON STREET by Horace Gregory. 276 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE by Dee Brown. 487 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Forked-Tongue Syndrome | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...phrases like "academic freedom" and "Free World," but also to overcome the somewhat arbitrary tendency of the press to concentrate its coverage on spectacles. Reading the book, we are less likely to encounter the verbiage the New York Times brought us about Woodstock than fascinating pieces by John Holt and Weatherman Bill Ayers on the need for revolutionary forms in education, personal accounts of radicalization, and essays on the women's movement...

Author: By R. CRAIG Unger, | Title: Books Movement Manifesto | 12/1/1970 | See Source »

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