Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things of great value. John's painting is not much regarded today, but he was an immense character. Seen from close up by Nicolette's appraising eye, he is not as admirable as he appears in his own autobiographical fragment, Chiaroscuro, or as bogus as in Aldous Huxley's satirical portrait of him as "John Bidlake" in Point Counter Point. Nicolette writes well, with a painter's eye for places and faces and a feminine instinct for character. These qualities plus Irish wit lend a novelistic point to her portraits of some great period figures...
...Julian Huxley once suggested that the world would be better off when everybody was a little tea-colored. Interbreeding may still be a radical concept as far as a lot of people are concerned, but it is old stuff to race horses. The field for last week's $150,000 Washington D.C. International at Laurel Race Course included ten horses from seven different countries, and it seemed more like a family reunion than a meeting of strangers...
Speaking at a Radcliffe Alumnae Association forum on "How to Achieve World Community," Oglesby said Saturday that if certain trends in our economy continue unchecked, "we may be faced with the unpleasant choice between Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brand New World...
...lectures at Yale, Columbia and Harvard and in some 30 books in English (An Introduction to Zen Buddhism), Suzuki struggled tirelessly to instruct reason-worshiping Westerners in the Zen principle of suspending reason in order to gain a glimpse of eternity, profoundly influencing scores of intellectuals from Aldous Huxley to J. D. Salinger...
...first big impetus toward this sort of mysticism came from the late writer-mystic Aldous Huxley, who in The Doors of Perception (1954) furnished a superseductive account of his experience under the influence of mescaline. Huxley recalled that earlier mystics had used fasting or self-flagellation to achieve a spiritual state. Nowadays, he argued, such measures are no longer necessary, since we know "what are the chemical conditions of transcendental experience...