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...sounds more like a late night at a discotheque. Still a popular item in the company's often scintillating but insubstantial repertory is Director Robert Jeffrey's Astarte, a mixed-media tour de force duet that throbs to an ear-pounding score by a group called the Crome Syrcus. Another audience favorite is Choreographer Gerald Arpino's exuberant, medieval-rock celebration. Trinity. Last week, as part of its fall season at Manhattan's City Center, the troupe gave the première of yet another rock ballet, Margo Sappington's Weewis...
...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...
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Crome Yellow...
...TURNER. While Constable, Crome and Gainsborough were painters in the rustic style, Joseph Mallord William Turner painted in what Basil Taylor calls the sublime style. With his sketchbook and a change of linen, he wandered about England looking for scenes of abstract emotion, and it has been said that the whole romantic wing of today's abstract painting derives from him. Once he had himself lashed to the mast of a boat for four hours during a severe storm at sea. Critics called the resulting painting "a mass of soapsuds and whitewash." Turner protested: "I wonder what they think...
Huxley's revisitation nevertheless is a fascinating intellectual exercise for those who like to think about the shape of things that have or might come. And sometimes Huxley still sounds like the brave young worldling who wrote Crome Yellow. Most original Huxleyism is a suggested law on the lines of habeas corpus, which would be a habeas mentem for the human race. Roughly translated it would mean the right for all to say: keep your dirty hands off my mind...