The Washington Post, December 25th, 1988
Sixty years ago, when Doris Lessing was a child and her family lived in what was then Southern Rhodesia, her dreamy, unconventional father would spend hours outside their hillside home, contemplating the glorious African landscape. "Mad! Mad!" he would shout, shaking his fist at the sky. "Everyone! Everywhere! Mad!" You get the feeling his daughter feels the same way. "Look at the history of mankind," Doris Lessing says. "One long series of catastrophes. We've survived ice ages and the Black Death and wars and famines and now we're going to have to survive AIDS. But why do we have to make thin...
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