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...sirens and the smash of explosives. BBC had been bombed; the producer of the program was trying to get his family out of a danger zone 200 miles away; it was a wet, cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert No. 3, Commander Archibald Bruce Campbell (retired), glared red-faced at his high-brow colleagues. The first...
Gypsy has long dropped easy references to Huxley, Spinoza, "the ancients." "I've got 5,000 books up at my place in the country," she told the press once, "and I've read a great many of them. . . . Proust is a regular drug." Gypsy first crashed Manhattan intellectual circles by discreet fellow-traveling when that was fashionable. She made speeches for trade unions and took off her clothes for the Spanish Republic. More recently she has taken them off for France, Britain and the aluminum drive. Her publicity on these occasions has not been free of a smirk...
GREY EMINENCE - Aldous Huxley -Harper...
...this strange Frenchman, whose psychic moods, personal habits, political methods and achievements strangely resembled Adolf Hitler's, Novelist Aldous Huxley this week published the first biography to be written in English. Father Joseph is an almost perfect subject for Aldous Huxley. The amoral novelist (Antic Hay, Point Counter Point) has become increasingly preoccupied with moral dilemmas (Eyeless in Gaza, Ends & Means) and increasingly a mystic...
What fascinates Huxley in Father Joseph is the moral dilemma of a mystic who is also a power politician, and whose whole active life is an illustration of Author Huxley's (and many other people's) pessimism about politics and history: "To all but the saints, who anyhow have no need of them, the lessons of history are totally unavailing." Huxley also finds Father Joseph very timely. "The road trodden by those bare horny feet led [through the Thirty Years War] to August 1914 and September...