Word: aldous
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...with Fritz Weaver under the deerstalker. Fiddler on the Roof is nominally based on Sholom Aleichem's moralistic tales of Jewish life in pre-revolutionary Russia, with irrepressible Zero Mostel in the leading role. The season's most technically ambitious adaptation will be a Broadway version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with book and lyrics by Frank Lacey, who was one of the word men behind The Music...
...actors who were giving the play its first group reading. Robert Frost made an annual pilgrimage for ten years. Britain's T. S. Eliot made it a top stop. So have scores of other writers -Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, E. E. Cummings, Joyce Cary, Wallace Stevens, Aldous Huxley, Marianne Moore, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, John Cheever. The Budapest String Quartet first thrived there. So did Choreographer Agnes de Mille, who says that without the Y modern dance would be ancient history...
...poetry, it too often loses its force in what Aldous Huxley called Aiken's "coloured mists" of sound. Reread today, Aiken seems a classic case of the experimental writer whose experiment is outmoded. He finds himself disconcertingly immured in some Smithsonian Institution of prose when he had aspired to the National Gallery, and viewed with respect only by those who remember that he was a pioneer in territory that has now been settled...
...Committee, a pro-Castro outfit. He also got a card at a New Orleans public library, drew out several spy novels by Ian Fleming (Kennedy's favorite cloak-and-dagger author), a book about Kennedy called Portrait of a President, another about the Berlin Wall, two novels by Aldous Huxley, and several books on Soviet and Chinese Communism-nearly all of which were distinctly anti-Communist in flavor -and a book describing the assassination of Huey Long...
...Aldous Huxley died Friday in California. Senator Goldwater flew on to Washington after attending the funeral of his mother-in-law in Indiana...