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...modest? I am a bright young historian of modern Europe. For several years I have been working on a brilliant book which, alas, is still in manuscript. Now my contract is up for renewal and my department informs me that it wants a book, not a manuscript. The chairman keeps adumbrating something called the Graustein formula which, coupled with the implications of the Dunlop Report, means (or so he says) that there is no longer a place for me at Harvard. Is he telling the truth? What is this Graustein formula, and what does it want from me? UNAPPRECIATED...
Though most liberal scripture scholars consider Mark the first Gospel (TIME, Dec. 27), the earliest extant Gospel manuscript now known dates from A.D. 135, a full century after Christ's death. New Testament scholarship in modern times has therefore assumed that the Gospels were later compilations of stories about Jesus, drawn from several sources and including both pious legend and at least some philosophy and social ethics that developed after his death...
...cannot decide," Charles McCarry lamented in mid-manuscript, "whether Ralph Nader is Jesus Christ or the Manchurian Candidate." The pity is that McCarry and others fail to sense that Nader is-and need be-neither...
...friend -and he disconcerted almost everyone. Born into one of Milan's wealthiest families, he was an avowed Socialist at the age of 20 and two years later became a Communist. But Feltrinelli scored his only real success as a capitalist publisher. In 1957 he smuggled the manuscript of Doctor Zhivago out of Russia, and published it in defiance of intense Soviet and local party pressures. After the Zhivago furor, Feltrinelli drifted further leftward, becoming a financial angel of Italy's militant Maoists and publishing a revolutionary magazine called Tricontinental. When Italian police three years ago sought...
Some 60% of all literary agents listed in the trade journal Literary Market Place are women. One possible reason might rankle feminists: many writers may feel a trifle better entrusting a newborn manuscript to the care of a woman...