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...GHOST IN THE MACHINE, by Arthur Koestler. The novelist, journalist and philosopher constructs a brilliant brief against the scientific establishment, asserting that man is more than the sum of natural forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 8, 1968 | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...story of his ugly ordeal behind Soviet bars for 18 months is as harrowing as anything in Koestler's Darkness at Noon, despite the fact that it was not Stalin's grim regime but Khrushchev's that punished Wynne. Though he was sometimes beaten, the primary torture was calculated degradation aimed at reducing Wynne to a broken, pliable animal. He never had adequate clothes or blankets for the harsh Rus sian winters. He was forced to live amid the stench of his own excrement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes from a Soviet Prison | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

This, of course, is not the first book to explore the camps or dig into the new subcellars that were constructed under the Lower Depths. It occupies a place on the same shelf as Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Lydia Chukovskaya's The Deserted House, another homefront view of the purges recently published in the U.S. But since Mrs. Ginzburg's book is a work of nonfiction, an intensely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Endure & Remember | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...whole community in Britain-are unsympathetic to the crudity and explicitness of performance." The result affects everything from the quality of technical education to precise manufacturing standards, and helps explain why the atavistic apprentice system persists, with its "myth of the craftsman and his incommunicable skills." Arthur Koestler agrees that "psychological factors and cultural attitudes are at the root of Britain's economic evils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: HOW THE TEA BREAK COULD RUIN ENGLAND | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses. Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon. D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CONNOLLY'S HUNDRED | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

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