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...Married. Aldous Leonard Huxley, 61, British-born short-story writer, essayist and novelist (Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan); and Laura Archera, 40, Italian concert violinist; he for the second time; in Yuma, Arizona's Drive-In Wedding Chapel...
...three kinds of wine glasses clicking against each other. Judiciously blended and recorded on tape, the effect was still not quite right. Then the tape was played backward with a little echo added. That did it. The sound depicted the manufacturing of babies in the radio version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World...
...Genius and the Goddess, by Aldous Huxley, discoursed with somewhat diminished brilliance on sexual infidelity at the genius level, grace and predestination in life, and the human limitations that accompany a very high...
Modern mankind is Mrs. Chirk. That is the thesis which British Novelist Nigel Dennis, a contributing editor of TIME brilliantly defends in one of the funniest most penetrating novels since the early Aldous Huxley. Once upon a time (perhaps in grandfather's day), says Author Dennis in effect, a man's Self was his castle. There might be an occasional siege of sin, and the drawbridge to the outer world might get tangled in confusion, but the Self itself stood fast. It was kept in place (like Bishop Berkeley's tree in the quad...
...GENIUS AND THE GODDESS (168 pp.) Aldous Huxley-Harper...