Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BEYOND THE MEXIQUE BAY-Aldous Huxley-Harper...
Restless travelers both, both endowed with a seeing eye, Aldous Huxley and John Dos Passos view the world through spectacles differently tinted. Huxley is an intelligentsiac, Dos Passos a neoCommunist. But both are as free as any lances to be found these days, and their eyewitness reports make worthwhile reading for stay-at-homes...
Weak-eyed Aldous Huxley, no such graphic reporter as Dos Passos, travels always with book in hand, but never a Baedeker. With a better seat in a library than on a horse, he is a hard man to upset in his own style of country. The physical peregrinations described in Beyond The Mexique Bay took him through Central America and Mexico, but many a peak in Darien, or even the depression of a valley, set him musing on an inner landscape. When he wants to, he can be as descriptive as the next 20th Century citizen, as in this definitive...
...Fascists will last longer than the similar mass emotion aroused by the first Franciscans. . . . Folk-art is often dull or insignificant; never vulgar, and for an obvious reason. Peasants lack, first, the money, and, second, the technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority of travelers and intelligentsia when he confesses: "Frankly, try how I may, I cannot very much like primitive people. They make me feel uncomfortable. 'La bêtise n'est pas mon fort...
...architecture (he works in his father's office) he has numerous arty hobbies, such as painting in water color, designing sets for the Comedy Club, costumes for eunuchs. His real passion is the stage. Nearsighted, gangling, emaciated, married, he looks like a composite of an American Indian, Aldous Huxley, King...