Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Religion at Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett, D. T. Suzuki and James F. Powers. He is also agin...
...myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious." The Self as deity pursued power (Faust) and pleasure (Don Juan). It achieved satiety, the rake's progress "from pain to ennui, from lust to disgust," which Fitch finds symbolically typified time and again in Aldous Huxley's heroes. At the end of Point Counter Point, the lovers, Burlap and Beatrice, "pretended to be two little children and had their bath together. And what a romp they had! The bathroom was drenched with their splashings. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The logic of self-realization...
...Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Heinrich Schirmbeck. With the verve of early Huxley, the novelist asks if science is the mote in the eye of 20th century...
...Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Heinrich Schirmbeck. With the verve of early Huxley, the novelist asks if science is the mote in the eye of 20th century...
...enemies call him the "Mad Apostle." Admirers call him a saint. Awards like the Lenin Peace Prize, support from both leftist and conservative groups in Italy and Europe, and acclaim from such different figures as Camus and Aldous Huxley make it difficult to determine just what kind of movement Dolci is leading. All that you can definitely say is that Dolci has been able to capture the imaginations of men throughout the world. His movement is non-violent, and he shuns politics as a source of corruption, yet he is attempting a regional development plan for all of eastern Sicily...