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...fellow whom he calls Proust's Pal (he had known Marcel quite well) who talked old-fashioned purple epigrams about books, homosexuality and English cooking. There were also Pamela Cohn, who thought of joining the Catholic Church but passed it up on a chance to meet Aldous Huxley, and a charming character called...
...when they talk of arts & letters. They dismiss all photography except the journalistic and the strictly scientific; they hear no difference between hot jazz and commercial swing; they dismiss the important German and Russian films of the '20s as a high-brow rage. D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley are disposed of as writers who did too much reading; T. S. Eliot as an author of ultra-chichi -vers-de-société; W. H. Auden as a slick eclectic who "perhaps never wrote an original line." If there were an award for that book which does...
...press-released "commentary" a self-appointed brain trust of liberal intellectuals, calling themselves the 1941 Committee, handed out stinging criticism to the British Government, suggested a broad program of war and peace aims. Signed by Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Kingsley Martin, veteran editor of the liberal New Statesman, and J. B. Priestley, the "commentary" suggested that Britain must "win the peace" as well as the war, should start right away. Excerpts...
...first novel out this week, What Makes Sammy| Run?,* Hollywood got a harpooning in just the way it argued could never be done. The evasive town had dodged shots by some expert marksmen-Novelists Aldous Huxley, John O'Hara, Nathanael West. But each seemed only to snag a loose end: the writer's world, the cowboys of Gower Gulch, the comedy of studio pomposity, the empty splendor of its rich...
...found important new techniques in picture-making and storytelling. Artful and artfully artless, it is not afraid to say the same thing twice if twice-telling reveals a fourfold truth. It is as psychiatrically sound as a fine novel but projected with far greater scope, for instance, than Aldous Huxley was inspired to bring to his novel on the same theme. It is a work of art created by grown people for grown people...