Word: aldous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these distinguished early contributors, the Review has added many more. Henry Adams, Winston Churchill, Max Beerbohm, Leon Trotsky. Robert Frost, Andre Gide, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Mann, Rebecca West, Aldous Huxley and Dr. James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard, have all appeared in the Review. The Review's range of interest is wide, running all the way from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter ("Law and Order") to the late Humorist Robert Benchley ("The Typical New Yorker"). The Review was one of the first U.S. publications outside of little poetry magazines to publish the singular verses of French Poet...
...signs went up in Arizona's Apache, Coconino and six other national forests. Such precautions did not prevent more than 120 major forest fires in California,.Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Flames licked through dry grasses and gutted 24 luxury homes in Hollywood Hills. Destroyed were Author Aldous Huxley's two-story house, his manuscripts and mementos of a lifetime. While firemen restrained the nearly blind British author from running into the blaze. Huxley wept like a child...
...simultaneous discussion, Aldous Huxley gave a similar answer to the question, "How Has Science in the Last Century Changed Man's View of Himself?" "Falstaffs, Hotspurs, and Feebles are still with us. Changing views of human nature and the world do not alter these basic facts; they merely alter the ways in which these facts are interpreted, evaluated, and socially dealt with...
...Religion at Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett, D. T. Suzuki and James F. Powers. He is also agin...
...dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious." The Self as deity pursued power (Faust) and pleasure (Don Juan). It achieved satiety, the rake's progress "from pain to ennui, from lust to disgust," which Fitch finds symbolically typified time and again in Aldous Huxley's heroes. At the end of Point Counter Point, the lovers, Burlap and Beatrice, "pretended to be two little children and had their bath together. And what a romp they had! The bathroom was drenched with their splashings. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The logic...