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In the revolt, one guard, William Quinn, 28, was severely injured; some observers said that they saw his body fall from an upper floor. The first day, convicts released Quinn and 11 other guards and civilians so that they could get medical help. After being stripped, the remaining guards were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: War at Attica: Was There No Other Way? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

During the attack, many of the terrified hostages, blindfolded and resigned to death blows from their executioners, were blissfully surprised. Phillip ("Curly") Watkins had been talking to his captor. "I asked him if he knew a buddy of mine. He said he did, and then I said, 'Well, then you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: War at Attica: Was There No Other Way? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Described as "innerspace fiction," the book treats the stay in a psychiatric hospital of Charles Watkins, 50, a classics professor, who was picked up rambling and confused near London's Waterloo Bridge at midnight, under the impression that he had survived an odyssey as bizarre as anything out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The White Bird of Truth | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

Miss Lessing leaves little doubt where her sympathies lie. In the final pages of The Four-Gated City, she had already worked out a theory that what is commonly called madness may often be extraordinary vision-an anticipation of the next evolution of mankind. Like Watkins, she is prepared to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The White Bird of Truth | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

Upon this mystical heaven, upon the great white bird that takes Watkins there-in other words upon some ultimate metaphysical truth-Miss Lessing stakes her faith in the future. Her self-absorption is both irritating and fascinating as she gambles at the borderline of sanity, just as she once gambled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The White Bird of Truth | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

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