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...ALDOUS HUXLEY once wrote that "good printing can create a valuable spiritual state in the reader." While we consider this more a thought to ponder than a principle to prove, TIME this week makes a major change in the interest of good printing. For the first time since early in TIME'S 40-year history, we have changed the magazine's body type-the type in which most of the editorial content is printed. Until this week, most of our columns have been printed in a variation of a type somewhat inappropriately called Old Style. Beginning with this...
...research was debated by our colleagues, and investigated by both the state and federal governments in the spring of 1961. It was also the subject of controversial discussion at a leading international psychological convention in Copenhagen, where it received support from men such as Professor Henry Murray and Aldous Huxley...
...course, is composed of the hallucinogens or psychedelics, those recently popularized substances which are less harmful than such narcotics of ill repute as opium and heroin, more fashionable than such gauche inebriants as airplane glue and laughing gas, and, in their effect, the closest things yet to fulfilling Aldous Huxley's prophecy of a drug having "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol with none of the disadvantages...
...said a group experimental in Mexico last summer had made him" less cynical about the possibility of a utopian society," such as the one described by Aldous Huxley in island. The Mexican experience, he related, prompted the creation of the Newton Center headquarters, where several unrelated persons are now living as a family unit. "This is not a blood-related family," he said, "it is like a family...
Freewheeling was the word for a U.C.L.A. conference to discuss, of all things, culture in California. First, Beatnik Chronicler Lawrence Lipton needled the Kennedys as a "press-made image of America's royal family." That went nowhere, man, so Author Aldous Huxley, 68, posed a quaint 20th century dilemma: "What should poets do about nightingales"-now that ornithologists have shown that the nightingale sings mainly to assert that he has "staked out his territory"? This seemed strictly for the birds, which left Movie Actor Jack Lemmon, 38, to bring everyone back to earth with a few well-chosen words...