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...Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). A repeat broadcast of "Science Fiction." Discussed by Aldous Huxley, Marc Connelly, Clifton Fadiman...
Died. Maria Nys Huxley, 55, wife of British-born Poet-Essayist-Novelist Aldous Huxley (Point Counter Point, Brave New World); of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...intellectual jazzman with an experimental or complex swinging beat. For glossary of other modern jazz terms, see p. 66. *A drug whose effects include Technicolor illusions and a relaxed sense of time, enthusiastically described by Author Aldous Huxley in his book, The Doors of Perception...
...replace Representative Douglas Stringfellow, who withdrew from the race in his district after confessing that his oft-told story of war heroism was a hoax, Utah Republicans last week nominated Henry Aldous Dixon, popular president of Utah State Agricultural College...
...Writing in the British Dominican review, Blackfriars, Oxford's professor of Eastern religions and ethics, Robert C. Zaehner, takes apart Novelist Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, in which Huxley proclaims that a drug called mescalin produced in him something like a religious experience. "This is the [familiar] experience of union with nature; it is not union with God," writes Zaehner. "The Doors of Perception cannot ... be classed as a holy book; for holiness implies peace. There is no peace here . . ." Far from approaching the Beatific Vision, Huxley "came nearer than he knew to the gates...