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...whose best work was actually done in the state; and more from such European exiles as the two Viennese Modernist architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler, who took refuge on the Pacific shore and found themselves in the company of assorted shrinks, religious prophets, musicians and writers, from Aldous Huxley and Thomas Mann to Henry Miller and Nathanael West. A lot of photography, of course, especially ultrasharp f/64 pix of very grand mountains by Ansel Adams and fuzzy Pictorialist ones of American nudes capering among the redwoods in homage to Isadora Duncan. In sculpture, not a hell...
...writer Joshua Wolf Shenk has pointed out, we tend to have opposing views about drugs: they can kill or cure; the addiction will enslave you, or the new perceptions will free you. Aldous Huxley typified this duality with his two most famous books, Brave New World--about a people in thrall to a drug called soma--and The Doors of Perception--an autobiographical work in which Huxley begins to see the world in a brilliant new light after taking mescaline...
Michael P. Abate Deborah A. Abeles Brian T. Abrams Michael S. Abramson Jaylaan Ahmad-Llewellyn Fahim Ahmed Stephanie N. Ajudua Rima Al-Mokarrab Michael E. Aldous Georgia N. Alexakis Jen J. B. Allen James A. Allison Elise B. Alschuler Mia C. R. Alvar Maneesh R. Amancharla Christopher A. Amar Jessie M. Amberg Richard H. Amberg Caitlin E. Anderson Blair M. Andresen Becky M. Antar Azunna E. Anyanwu Christina E. Anzuoni Patrick R. Aquino Ethan D. S. Ard Adam I. Arenson Eric R. Ashley David C. Atherton William F. Austin Erin L. Autry Irina Babushkina Daniel B. Baer Anna M. Baldwin...
...white light, a liberating awareness of God--that led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and Wilson's revolutionary 12-step program, the successful remedy for alcoholism. The 12 steps have also generated successful programs for eating disorders, gambling, narcotics, debting, sex addiction and people affected by others' addictions. Aldous Huxley called him "the greatest social architect of our century...
When science fiction gets over its trite romance with the parts catalog, it can achieve unnerving power. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell are the classic exemplars of that small, elite class of science-fiction writers who frighten and annoy science-fiction devotees. Huxley's Brave New World (1932) bursts with prescient speculation: "feelie" multimedia, Prozac-like "soma" tranquilizers, test-tube babies. Late in life Huxley became a psychedelics guru, seduced by the potent allure of brain chemistry...