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No book is more important to understanding the new perspective than Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, published in 1962. It is an ambitious, cerebral work about a generous, brave and intelligent woman named Anna Wulf, a writer, leftist, divorcee, analysand who, like the author, emigrated from South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Irate Accent | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

The Man Who Loved Children, one of the most virulent portraits of male delusion and domestic agony ever created. Though it has become a minor classic, it was all but unnoticed when it came out in 1940. In the 1950s Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Irate Accent | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

Madness threatens to become the fashion in the arts, not as the stuff of drama and melodrama (it has always been that) but as an aesthetic creed. Some of the best, as well as some of the worst, novelists of the '70s are carrying out French Surrealist Andre Breton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The New Cult of Madness: Thinking As a Bad Habit | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

The name stuck, and the battle was rejoined. Another German researcher, Gotthold Lessing, advanced the idea that a lost Aramaic gospel had been the source for the evangelists' texts in Greek. Theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher suggested the existence of a lost collection of Jesus' sayings that he called the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who Has the Good News Straight? | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

PHOTOGRAPHER Erich Lessing calls himself an atheist-"or at best, an agnostic"-but that description would hardly seem credible to those who buy his books. Last Christmas, Lessing's The Bible: History and Culture of a People, told the story of the Old Testament in a lavish pictorial presentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: This Is Where Jesus Walked | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

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