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ANITA Loos was a Hollywood oddity, a silent movie screenwriter who was almost as famous as the actors for whom she wrote. She went on to become a prolific playwright and novelist whose sharp, witty work sustained a career that spanned seven decades. Her friends included Aldous Huxley and Cecil Beaton and she numbered William Faulkner, Winston Churchill and James Joyce among her admirers. In Gary Carey's biography, however, what emerges is a portrait of struggle and frustration...
...them commands the interest of strangers. In these letters, Wharton does. And for the rest of the time, she is an incisive guide through the glories and vicissitudes of her own amazing life. She knew everyone, from Henry James, Bernard Berenson and Teddy Roosevelt to Sinclair Lewis, Aldous Huxley and Kenneth Clark. She usually remained mute about her generosities with money and time, but the helpful annotating of Biographer Lewis and his wife Nancy fills in many gaps. She read extensively and exhaustively in a number of languages; in one letter she casually mentions enjoying a new translation of Aeschylus...
This month, however, the growth center that held its first seminar on "The Human Potentiality" marks its 25th anniversary. A full generation has passed since Aldous Huxley, Arnold Toynbee and Buckminster Fuller first haunted these groves. Now that many of its ideas are available at your neighborhood seminar, while others are gathering dust, how does a place dedicated to state-of-the- heart fashions stay fresh? And has it come any closer to proving that feeling good can lead to being good...
...seems to have had lovers almost as often as the rest of us have lunch," says Amos, "and such was their variety that one wonders if she even paused to glance at the menu." If she did, among the entrees she saw were Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, Louis Aragon, Aldous Huxley and Wyndham Lewis. Alas, at her funeral the pallbearers outnumbered the mourners. Writers, unlike painters, are not famous for acknowledging their models...
Canadian Author Margaret Atwood's sixth novel will remind most readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four. That can hardly be helped. Any new fictional account of how things might go horribly wrong risks comparisons either with George Orwell's classic or with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. To a remarkable degree, these two books have staked out the turf of contemporary antiutopias. Which punishment is it to be this time? Relentless, inescapable totalitarianism or the mindless, synthetic stupors of technology? As it turns out, Atwood's look at the future takes place under conditions that Orwell would recognize. Repression...