Word: aldous
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...course, he's not alone at that. It has often fallen to artists high and low to frame the choices that matter most: Harriet Beecher Stowe on slavery, Aldous Huxley on "progress," George Orwell on tyranny, Ralph Ellison on race. We could debate which debate has most refocused the Iraq war: the one moderated by Tim Russert or the one by Jon Stewart. When Crichton takes aim at genetic engineering and argues that "the future is closer than you think - get used to it," he is likely to shape opinion more than all the bioethics seminars and Senate debates combined...
...Esalen institute?the 44-year-old spiritual retreat once infamous as a flashpoint of the hippy movement?is offering a spectacular new high. And this time, it has nothing to do with the LSD-inspired antics of past luminary visitors such as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. Instead, the not-for-profit seminar center?set amid a spectacular 165 acres of California's Big Sur coastline?has thrown open its extensively renovated thermal-spring baths to the public. You need to pay a $20 fee and make an advance reservation...
...like breakfast on a sunny morning," Christopher Isherwood confessed to his diary in 1941 when he was a recent arrival in Hollywood, writing scripts for MGM. Nine pages later, he's not only describing the Marx Brothers jumping all over Somerset Maugham, "screaming like devils," but also watching Aldous Huxley and Charlie Chaplin singing old London music-hall songs on the Santa Monica Pier. No wonder the unchanging center of Isherwood's life, the Hindu Vedantist teacher Swami Prabhavananda, asked his worldly disciple to bring the Duke of Windsor to his Hollywood temple: Isherwood was the rare Hollywood Hindu...
...even the doctors in the White House medical unit. In that 11-min. speech, set not in the Oval Office but against an expanse of Texas prairie, the President talked about the dream of wiping out Alzheimer's disease and childhood diabetes but also of the nightmarish "hatcheries" of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The issue, Bush declared, "lies at a difficult moral intersection, juxtaposing the need to protect life in all its phases with the prospect of saving and improving life in all its stages." The government would move forward carefully, he promised, providing federal money for research...
...alternative would be to accept the reality and deal with it, a la putting condoms in high school bathrooms instead of preaching abstinence. In this regard, Harvard should do everything its power to turn sexual intercourse into frivolous fun. We should turn our dorms into the sexual playpens of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” where students can engage in hetero- and homoerotic activity to release tension before they are drugged off to sleep to get ready for the tough day of work ahead...