Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond Nakedness. The trouble with most people who look at a painting, said the experts, is that they can't see the leaves for the tree-and consequently don't recognize what kind of tree it is. Said Novelist Aldous Huxley: "A person who looks at a Titian solely because it represents a naked woman is not getting the full content of the picture...
...biography of a family" is devoted to the new forms of literature, music and painting that took root in Britain after World War I. But the old Victorian form of father, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., makes the other characters (even such brilliant ones as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot) look slightly dwarfish. Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on him, Waugh simply became incapable of speech -"struck mute, in a kind...
Over there, for instance, was the usually gentle Pablo Picasso, who got so steamed up at a formal dinner that he removed coat and shirt, or, as a lady intellectual said: "My dear, he stripped to his navel." And over there was Mrs. Julian Huxley, wife of UNESCO's director-general, in conversation with Jerzy Borejsza, an organizer of the congress. Intellectual Borejsza was as steamed up as Painter Picasso. Said he to Mrs. Huxley: "If my wife behaved at UNESCO as you have here, I would spank her bottom...
...Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting...
...possible," exclaimed UNESCO's Julian Huxley, on the subject of yoga, ". . . for a man to control his breathing ... or get himself into a state of complete mystic exaltation? If we could find out how, there might be some way to turn these practices into a beneficial force for Western civilization...