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...GOLDEN NOTEBOOK, by Doris Lessing (567 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $5.95). In her twelfth book, British Novelist Doris Lessing copes with not just one literary chestnut but a whole treeful: the sexual odyssey of a bachelor girl, the political disillusionment of a onetime Communist, the maladjustment of the overeducated modern woman. She succeeds in creating a remarkable heroine (possibly her alter ego) who somehow manages believably to combine the qualities of Kitty Foyle, Arthur Koestler and Simone de Beauvoir. Like Mrs. Lessing, Heroine Anna Wulf is a divorced writer who explains, in four different notebooks, why she is too troubled...
...they eat. What makes good reading is what they say." In pursuit of what people say, Betty cheerfully butts into conversations, shamelessly descends on eminences emerging from a tête-à-tête, and inquires what was said. She later jots her gleanings down in a small notebook, using a rapid shorthand she learned in a secretarial course...
Next day he was off again by plane, helicopter and Jeep. Along the way, he filled his notebook with facts and figures in his small, meticulous, left-handed script. At Luong Son, a strategic hamlet that has already withstood seven Viet Cong attacks, McNamara asked how soon the nearest military post could be alerted, learned that because Luong Son lacks a radio transmitter, it takes four hours to summon aid by runners. Said he curtly: "Let's get radios in this area." At the resort town of Dalat, McNamara changed to black tie to dine with South Viet...
...Story Thus Far: Biff Bundie, University undercover man disguised as graduate student Kevin Stoddard Heath came into possession of a mysterious book bag when he was bumped into by a strange foreign man. As the Bick he opened the bag to find a sinister notebook, a library book ("The Secret Plants of Ancient Egypt"), and a small box containing a hypodermic needle and a white card on which was printed a Roman numeral seven enclosed by a circle. Suddenly Biff discovered he was being watched by a suspicious man who introduced himself as Doctor Drugg. Drugg persuaded Bundie to walk...
...slowly sinking into madness, and Turnbull does a moving and convincing reporter's job on tracing Zelda's decline from the brittlely gay young madcap who could bathe in the Plaza fountain at midnight to the hopeless schizophrenic that she became. As Fitzgerald put it in his notebook: "I left my capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium." By the '30s, Fitzgerald had lost his early conviction that "life was something you dominated if you were any good." He drowned himself in gin, lamenting "I haven't been able...