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...interested anyone by this time was changing the form of government we wanted only to forget it." The New society must be a collective one. Authority must be based on love and caring rather than on power. Lessing, who described her departure from the Communist Party in The Golden Notebook, has abandoned rhetoric for a more humanistic tone, where individuals take the place of party lines...
British Novelist Doris Lessing is a mystic. Once, in The Golden Notebook, her frontier was women's liberation. In Briefing for a Descent into Hell, and now in The Memoirs of a Survivor, she has so abstracted herself from the present and the actual as to deserve another name than novelist. Call her latest book a ghost story of the future...
Ford knows that as well as anybody. So right now there is a thick notebook in the White House office of Jim Cannon, director of the Domestic Council, with literally scores of domestic proposals that have poured in from Cabinet officers and agency heads for three months. They range from rebuilding country sewers to resuscitating the Penn Central railroad...
...August 1915, a Catholic priest serving as a lowly stretcher-bearer with a French infantry regiment was cited for displaying "the greatest self-sacrifice and contempt for danger" during a ruinous battle. But there is no mention of the honor in the cheap school notebook in which, during the same week, the priest began keeping a diary "to force myself to think, to observe, to be precise...
...first pages of the diary read like the usual soldier's notebook, but for much of the rest, the wretched drudgery of rescuing bodies, dead and half living, is unmentioned. In fact, Teilhard's cosmic philosophy had the disconcerting result of making the horror of war almost benign. On Sept. 21,1917, he wrote that warfare creates "a certain superhuman atmosphere where life takes on an interest out of proportion with the preoccupations of ordinary existence...