Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro outfit. He also got a card at a New Orleans public library, drew out several spy novels by Ian Fleming (Kennedy's favorite cloak-and-dagger author), a book about Kennedy called Portrait of a President, another about the Berlin Wall, two novels by Aldous Huxley, and several books on Soviet and Chinese Communism-nearly all of which were distinctly anti-Communist in flavor -and a book describing the assassination of Huey Long...
...Aldous Huxley died Friday in California. Senator Goldwater flew on to Washington after attending the funeral of his mother-in-law in Indiana...
...tragedy of President Kennedy's assassination should not obscure completely Aldous Huxley's death of cancer the same day. Huxley's passing has removed one of the most urbane and erudite writers of this century. His catholic mind ranged through the art, science, literature, religion and history of the entire world. For forty years, he used that mind to uncover human error and weakness, but he never lost his regard for "what ever is splendid in humanity...
...Half-brother of Novelist Aldous and Biologist Sir Julian Huxley...
...years, primitive tribes have had visionary orgies at feasts of certain sacred plants, often mushrooms. The use of the peyote cactus, from which mescaline is derived, is a regular part of the Communion services of the Native American Church, composed of 200,000 U.S. Indians. Novelist Aldous Huxley wrote, in The Doors of Perception, that mescaline produced in him an effect that seemed like seeing the beatific vision. Psychologist Timothy Leary, who was dropped from the Harvard faculty last spring after receiving strong criticism for his freewheeling research in the use of LSD and psilocybin, gave the drugs...