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Angus Wilson seemed to begin where Evelyn Waugh and Aldous Hux ley left off. It was as if he had been born a middle-aged comedian, clever but desolate. For him there was no initial period when a young satirist simply func tions: a predatory animal savagely but happily on the hunt...
SUNDAY: Masterpiece Theater. Part 2 of BBC production of Aldous Huxley's social satire "Point Counter Point" features Lucy Tantamount's seduction of Walter Bidlake. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color...
After hearing but a few notes over the car radio, he can identify Mahler's Fifth Symphony. He can also quote Aldous Huxley. His paramour is both impressed and baffled. "Who's Aldous Huxley?" she asks...
...idea, which has been treated as more or less prophetic fiction by countless writers from Aldous Huxley to Agatha Christie, carries considerable fascination. What if a pill had been available to soothe Genghis Khan or Alexander, or bend Adolph Hitler's mind to some charitable humanity? Clark's proposal is an extraordinarily dramatic extension of the argument made by Behavioral Psychologist B.F. Skinner (see cover story) that man must be controlled to survive...
Died. Henry Fitz Gerald Heard, 81, novelist, philosopher and member of the fraternity of pacifist intellectuals that included Aldous Huxley and Bertrand Russell; in Santa Monica, Calif. Though he once declared that "words are at the end of their tether; their elasticity is worn out," the British expatriate was a most prolific writer. As H.F. Heard, he turned out first-rate detective stories (A Taste for Honey) and Orwellian chillers (The Great Fog). As Gerald Heard, he wrote such scholarly works on philosophy and religion as A Dialogue in the Desert and The Ascent of Humanity...