7 NOVEMBER 1987, page 48

Peace Comes Dropping Slow

C oleridge's wish — `to float down the rivulet of quiet life, a trout' — is the beginning of wisdom and nearly impossi- ble. Activists may pish and insist that man is on this......

God Became An Undesirable Alien

Patrick Skene Catling BARE-FACED MESSIAH by Russell Miller Michael Joseph, £12.95 I f a man really wanted to make a million dollars,' the late L. Ron Hubbard once told a New......