Word: aldous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repute. Thus when the company finally got up the courage to assault the U.S. for a ten-week tour, Co-Directors Peggy van Praagh and Robert Helpmann cajoled Rudi Nureyev into appearing as guest artist in his own staging of Don Quixote; they also imported New Zealand-born Lucette Aldous of Britain's Royal Ballet to dance the heroine...
Laura Huxley, author of You Are Not the Target and wife of the late Aldous Huxley, meditated, exercised, and tripped with 40 students last night in the Mather...
...answer is not as pat as it might seem. Though most Americans still accept efficiency as virtuous, there is a growing counter-cult that views efficiency as a dehumanizing, soul-devouring force. The cult began long ago, with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. In their nightmare Utopias, Brave New World and 1984, they depicted future dictatorships made all the more oppressive by relentless efficiency. The counter-cult has strong expression in modern science fiction. Example: in This Perfect Day, Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby, describes a futuristic society ruled by a gigantic computer, Uni, which calculates the most...
...American. Americans usually head the continual drives for funds, for obvious reasons. Many "paganized" forms of Christianity have evolved, but the Church does everything it can to suppress these, explaining "these minority groups frequently cause situations of conflict with the rest of the population." (See official introduction to Aldous Huxley's "Practicas Religiosas en Mesoamerica" (Religious Practices in Central America). Semenaria de Integration Social Guatemalteca, No. 11, 1965. Quote is from footnote #5 on page...