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There was no comment on the rumors that Aldous Huxley had been hired to write them and that they were played over and over again all through the day and night in such strategic places as the Varsity Club and Mory...
...modern public has had little chance to savor the sorrows of Gesualdo, but now a first-class LP has been released on the Sunset label with five singers led by young (28) California Conductor Robert Craft, a protege of Composer Igor Stravinsky. The album is "presented by" Author Aldous Huxley, who has long been fascinated by Gesualdo's violent career, and is now equally fascinated by his madrigals. They are, writes Huxley in his program notes, "a kind of musical miracle, in which seemingly incompatible elements are reconciled in a higher synthesis...
...Garnett told of his childhood among such literary greats as Joseph Conrad, who taught him how to sail (on the lawn), Henry James, who had him to tea, and "Jack" Galsworthy. Now Garnett has moved into another part of his private forest of first names. There are among others, Aldous (Huxley), Maynard (Lord Keynes), Virginia (Woolf), Morgan (E. M. Forster), Lytton (Strachey) and Rupert (Brooke...
Died. Frieda Emma Johanna Maria von Richthofen Weekley Lawrence Ravagli, 77, earthy, aristocratic mistress (1912-14), wife (1914 until his death in 1930) and muse of British Novelist D.H. (Lady Chatterley's Lover) Lawrence, presumed model for the wife of Mark Rampion, Aldous Huxley's fictional portrait of Lawrence in Point Counter Point, and wife (since 1950) of Angelino Ravagli, Italian painter and ceramist; of a stroke; in Taos...
Junior Myth. Novelist Murdoch writes in the comic intellectual tradition of the early Aldous Huxley, but now the sad young Huxleymen of the '20s have grown up to be desperately dim middle-aged men in dim jobs. Murdoch's subjects are transfixed at a moment in history when those who inherit a great tradition are not enriched and strengthened by the past, but mocked and enfeebled...