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Examining the brave new worlds dreamed up by Utopians from Plato to H. G. Wells, astringent British Author Aldous Huxley, 67, concluded that, "luckily for humanity," not one of them "could ever be fully actualized." Even the best-intentioned of the lot, said Huxley to the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, would have created societies "as horribly inhuman as Orwell's 1984" or his own Brave New World. More's Utopia, said he, is "paternalistic state socialism administered like an old-fashioned boarding school"; Plato advocated childhood conditioning, censorship and "compulsory...
Loosely based on a celebrated case in 17th century France (which Aldous Huxley skillfully described ten years ago in his historical narrative. The Devils of Loudun), this picture, set and filmed in Poland, is already celebrated throughout Europe and last year won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Its writerdirector, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, is being compared with Sweden's Ingmar Bergman. In Poland, the Communist press hailed Joan of the Angels? with expectable enthusiasm, while a Roman Catholic prelate called it "a dirty glove thrown in the face of the church." It is, more exactly, a nearly successful work...
ISLAND (335 pp.)-Aldous Huxley-Harper...
Admirers of those cleverly nasty satires that Aldous Huxley wrote in the '20s and '30s were certain that one day the master's first name would pass into common usage as an adjective: if someone woke up feeling aldous, he would be liverish, cold to the touch and awfully, awfully acute. So it might have happened, except that a time came when Aldous did not feel aldous any more; he felt thomas-henry. And old T. H. Huxley, the novelist's grandfather, was a solemn teacher, not a satirist. The result was that after the aldous...
When first published in 1947, as Cefalû, it attracted little attention. It suffers somewhat from the fact that Durrell had not yet asserted his independence from such models as Aldous Huxley, and from an excessive urge to moralize. But Durrell is already demonstrating his ability to make the reader care intensely for his characters, even for those-and this is true mastery-that are thoroughly unlikable. Already he can evoke a subtle kind of suspense in which the reader wonders not merely "What will become of so-and-so?" but also "What will he become?" For the action, ultimately...