Word: huxleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady Brett to personify the Lost Generation, on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt to embody a generation that resolutely refused to get lost. Now a new literary symbol has emerged, a character who is a kind of poor relation to the rich, left-wing intellectual of the brilliant Huxley 'aos. He has started not only a new literary trend in Britain, but he marks the end of an intellectual era. See BOOKS, Lucky Jim & His Pals...
According to Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception, a book on the effects of peyote, use of the drug does not cause any sort of aggressive tendencies, as does use of alcohol or narcotics. Instead, it tends to make the user quiet and introspective during the approximately 12 hours it has effect...
...Essence (1948) Author Aldous Huxley describes a world in which the apes have taken over. Could our little friend Mr. Muggs be an avant-courier of this...
...girls like their lovers to be tough, but only because it's more fun tempting them to become membek. And anyone who succumbs to such temptation is liable to be turned into a toad after death. It's all a big problem, the Urubus assured Anthropologist Francis Huxley, who lived with them for several months, and some fellows end up quite impotent trying to figure out a compromise...
Civilization has barely scratched the Urubu. For the visitor this makes conversation strictly one-way, because talk about railway trains, skyscrapers or factories only bewilders them. Huxley found that the only Western institution the Urubus could appreciate was Queen Elizabeth's coronation, which he was required to enact again and again. Missionaries told the Urubu Indians about the Christ child long ago; but then the missionaries sailed away, leaving Maïr in full possession. Today, only dogs, chickens and ducks are deemed the creations of the Christ child. Everything else is ghosts and spirits-and an impressive ghost...