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Producer Alexander Cohen and Greek Director Michael (Zorba the Greek) Cacoyannis are bringing in The Devils, an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun. With Jason Robards as the 17th century priest and Anne Bancroft as the prioress whose lurid accusations lead him to the stake, theater parties are buying early...
...together, the talk is less likely to be nostalgia about Oxford, Cambridge or Edinburgh than about memories of Columbia, Michigan or U.C.L.A. Even Indians who do not go abroad are reading more about the West than they did before. Yesterday's intellectual demigods were G. B. Shaw, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot; today's are Mary McCarthy and James Baldwin. Where once the coffee tables in Indian upper-class homes carried outdated copies of Punch and The Taller, they now carry fresh issues of American magazines. Indian art is selling better than ever-and although their work...
...Aldous Huxley: But what you are suggesting leads ultimately to testtube babies--the ultimate divorce of sex and procreation...
...uncle of the human race and prince of good livers!" The line appeared in London's Vanity Fair and described a beguiling American who counted among his friends Bismarck, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Thomas Huxley, President Garfield, the Emperor of Brazil, Tennyson, Thackeray and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...experience. No less than five of the book's contributors call on William James' Varieties of Religious Experience for a precedent to LSD visions. One writer reports that most LSD subjects receive a "common vision of immortality." They, presumably, have seen through the mortality game. Although both Leary and Huxley insist that LSD is only a means of educating oneself for the normal conscious state, neither really explains why it wouldn't be nicer to spend all one's time under LSD. As an Indian student remarked recently, "Who wants to build railroads when you can have the fulfillment...