Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALDOUS HUXLEY once wrote that "good printing can create a valuable spiritual state in the reader." While we consider this more a thought to ponder than a principle to prove, TIME this week makes a major change in the interest of good printing. For the first time since early in TIME'S 40-year history, we have changed the magazine's body type-the type in which most of the editorial content is printed. Until this week, most of our columns have been printed in a variation of a type somewhat inappropriately called Old Style. Beginning with this...
Feeling frustrated? Filled with nameless anxieties? No problem. Simply "go into a room by yourself; put on your favorite music, throw off your clothes; and dance."* So advises Laura Archera Huxley, wife of Writer-Philosopher Aldous, in her just-published collection of "Recipes for Living and Loving," entitled You Are Not the Target, and selling for $4.95. Mrs. Huxley's husband writes in his introduction to the book that "these recipes work." Readers less emotionally involved with the author may find her formulas to be, at best, ridiculous, and, at worst, risky. But lively reading nonetheless...
...Huxley sails far-distant waters. She is part Anne Morrow Lindbergh ("Listen to the sea-only listen"), part Lee Strasberg ("Become an animal; make the noises your animal makes; feel as it feels; think as it thinks; eat as it eats"), part Vic Tanny ("Hang a tether ball on a nail; punch it; punch, punch, punch"). She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism. She dips as well, unfortunately, into sheer medical foolishness, instructs readers in search of momentary relief from irritation to plunge...
...research was debated by our colleagues, and investigated by both the state and federal governments in the spring of 1961. It was also the subject of controversial discussion at a leading international psychological convention in Copenhagen, where it received support from men such as Professor Henry Murray and Aldous Huxley...
...course, is composed of the hallucinogens or psychedelics, those recently popularized substances which are less harmful than such narcotics of ill repute as opium and heroin, more fashionable than such gauche inebriants as airplane glue and laughing gas, and, in their effect, the closest things yet to fulfilling Aldous Huxley's prophecy of a drug having "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol with none of the disadvantages...