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History is sprinkled with the relics of religious sects that flamed and flickered out - brief candles of faith that were lighted by a charismatic leader and died within a short time after he died. Where are the Novatianists, the Rappites, the Robinsonian Psychiana devotees of yesteryear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: West Meets East | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth is typically Robinsonian: a shadow masque seen through a glass darkly, by a keen but puzzled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets Old & New | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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