Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a kind of empirical intuition," the thinkers of the ancient world anticipated many of the most modern discoveries in psychology, Aldous Huxley observed tonight. In the first of his seven scheduled lectures on "What a Piece of Work Is a Man," the novelist discussed "Ancient Views of Human Nature" before an estimated 1,500 people at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium...
...Homeric view of man, Huxley stated, attributed both evil and heroism to "possession" by supernatural forces. When a man erred or when he accomplished some feat of great valor, the ancient Greeks believed that he was visited by spirits from the gods, who inspired...
...fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton, e.g. Aldous Huxley in Antic Hay, takes a gentler and-inferentially-more engaging approach. Writers such as Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis similarly express the " 'Leave Us Alone' philosophy of young people" in largely humorous terms...
...annoying as it might be. Durrell's spirits are so buoyant that they earn the reader's indulgence. His posturings are taken as overdrafts on respect well repaid by later books, and so is his blatant mimicry of such authors as Lawrence, Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Henry Miller (to whom Durrell sent the only typescript of the book with the coy instruction to read it and throw it in the Seine...
...turn in my preaching parchment if Huxley and his biological associates can make one further advancement. Let them eradicate this thing we theological boys call sin. If so, I'll return to the scientific campus or take up a janitorial job in a biological...