Word: aldous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemies call him the "Mad Apostle." Admirers call him a saint. Awards like the Lenin Peace Prize, support from both leftist and conservative groups in Italy and Europe, and acclaim from such different figures as Camus and Aldous Huxley make it difficult to determine just what kind of movement Dolci is leading. All that you can definitely say is that Dolci has been able to capture the imaginations of men throughout the world. His movement is non-violent, and he shuns politics as a source of corruption, yet he is attempting a regional development plan for all of eastern Sicily...
...Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Heinrich Schirmbeck. A metaphysical novel about the role of science, argued with the wildly sprayed brilliance of early Aldous Huxley...
...their computers wash themselves of culpability for the blinding light they have created? Is all new knowledge good? And if it is not, should scientists be controlled - by the state, for the state's ends? So Schirmbeck's characters inquire, talking essays to each other the way Aldous Huxley's people used to, and enthusiastically fogging the main issues with wildly sprayed brilliance on such matters as the esthetics of the ballet and the narrator's Oedipus entanglements...
Opening with a discussion of the "dynamic unconscious," Aldous Huxley ranged over a wide variety of topics before an overflow audience at M.I.T.'s Kresge Hall last night...
...With a kind of empirical intuition," the thinkers of the ancient world anticipated many of the most modern discoveries in psychology, Aldous Huxley observed tonight. In the first of his seven scheduled lectures on "What a Piece of Work Is a Man," the novelist discussed "Ancient Views of Human Nature" before an estimated 1,500 people at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium...