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THE WORLD OF CHESS by ANTHONY SAIDY and NORMAN LESSING 247 pages. Ridge Press/Random House. $17.95.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strange Boardfellows | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

Misspent Youth. The World of Chess, by International Master Anthony Saidy and Senior Master Norman Lessing, is the handsomest and most informative chess picture book ever produced. Its illustrations include Persian paintings, medieval manuscripts, 18th century court scenes, 20th century abstractions, a few sly cartoons and some arresting photographs of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strange Boardfellows | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

Robert Gottlieb, 43, president of Alfred A. Knopf, is a compulsive reader and passionate editor who once thought of himself as purely literary. After graduating from Yale and studying English at Cambridge University, he returned to his native Manhattan and, he says, "I found to my astonishment, gratification and horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

Love in these Doris Lessing stories is a disease, often contagious, occasionally fatal. Only the very young confuse it with pleasure. A mild attack of love can drive Lessing women to pray: "O God, make me old soon." It is almost as if love were Mrs. Lessing's version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amor Vincit Omnia? | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Is there an alternative to love? In these stories, written not long before The Golden Notebook (1962)-Mrs. Lessing's broadest consideration of all the wars between the sexes-her answer appears to be a rueful no. Those who want to live, apparently, are more or less doomed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amor Vincit Omnia? | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

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