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...sort of cultural calm has settled over the nation's colleges, at least on the surface. No campus is without its atrocity story of intellectual deadness. At the University of Michigan, Vice President for Student Affairs James Lewis asked a group of 100 students what they thought of Aldous Huxley. "Only one or two of them," he reported, "had ever heard of him." At Kenyon, Poet-Critic John Crowe Ransom sadly detects "a sort of idleness of the creative imagination." At the University of Illinois, English Professor Charles Shattuck complains : "A secondhand bookstore wouldn't be supported...
Bagged in Manhattan by a London Sunday Dispatch interviewer, sad-eyed old Satirist Aldous Huxley, 63, rhapsodized about his Hollywood hermitage, where "foxes, possum, raccoons, even coyotes, are always trotting across my terrace," lamented the pointless counterpoint of the brave new world. On Manhattan: "The psychological cost of living is rather high in New York. I find the streets horrifying and spend most of my time in my hotel room in a sort of fool's paradise." On television: "Who needs that little screen with disgusting little grey figures hopping around?" On writing: "It's getting...
...Wife of Publicist Gervas Huxley, cousin of Aldous and Julian...
According to Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception, a book on the effects of peyote, use of the drug does not cause any sort of aggressive tendencies, as does use of alcohol or narcotics. Instead, it tends to make the user quiet and introspective during the approximately 12 hours it has effect...
...Essence (1948) Author Aldous Huxley describes a world in which the apes have taken over. Could our little friend Mr. Muggs be an avant-courier of this...