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...Mythology. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a kind of nonfiction novel about Ken Kesey, the celebrated author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It is a more serious and successful attempt to proselytize the antic way of freaky esthetics. It may even be considered the New Testament of hip mythology: Wolfe implies a likeness between Kesey and various religious figures-including Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. In 1964, Kesey forsook the literary world, having already established an LSD cult in La Honda, Calif. Wolfe records the events, carefully drawing religious parallels...
...could fathom Hamlet. The critics become unintentionally involved in the action and are both shot to death. Stoppard is a ' word mimic and a born parodist. But parody is parasitic and needs a strong host body. With Hamlet as host, Stoppard worked wonders. Apart from a few antic moments, The Real Inspector Hound is a lazy blunder...
Another school of architects feels that a building ought to tell what is going on beneath its skin. The antic conglomeration of bumps, bulges and concavities of the Morris Mechanic Theater in Baltimore fairly shouts that the play's the thing?and also divulges stair towers and mechanical equipment spaces. With its fortress style, the Boston city hall states another simple truth: that city governments are under constant attack...
...love, in the early novels (Crome Yellow, Antic Hay and Point Counter Point), it meant sex. And sex to Huxley was disgusting man at his most disgusting-something that he approached, as that prophet of passion D. H. Lawrence put it, with the "desperate courage of repulsion." The poem attributed to one of Huxley's characters in Ape and Essence is unmistakably in the author's voice...
...Adam Smith" has been read with glee in the Big Board jungle ever since his antic commentaries about the stock market first appeared in New York magazine. The articles were not only clear and authentic, but also sharply satirical. Based on those articles, The Money-Game is a highly original look at the art of investing, as well as a modest and amusing contribution to popular psychology. Smith/Goodman tells about the young woman who confuses her shares in Comsat with procreative urges ("'Every time they fire off one of those satellites, I think, that's mine, that...