Word: huxleyism
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...Gioconda Smile (by Aldous Huxley; produced by Shepard Traube) was a Huxley short story and film before becoming a play. Its trick ironic plot still had a certain crude fascination on Broadway last week; and Huxley, turned playwright, was still plainly a man of parts. But The Gioconda Smile offered mournful proof of what the stage can do to harm a piece of writing and of how time can accentuate a writer's faults...
...advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous Huxley's The Giaconda Smile...
...Aldous Huxley's brittle fantasy, Brave New World, a voice whispers insistently in the ears of sleeping babies, adapting future demand to future industrial production: "I do love having new clothes, I do love . . . But old clothes are beastly, we always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better...
...Double Crisis," which gives a dreary Mathusian view of an overpopulated, starving world, is an unsatisfying conclusion to the volume. The change from a critical to a vaguely constructive approach afflicts Mr. Huxley's usually confident style with a certain awkwardness. And most of his observations and proposals are either aged or admittedly impractical, leaving an impression of dilettantism which one does not receive from the critical works in this volume...
...essays except the last display a verse style that is as sparkling as it is smooth, and as stimulating as it is comprehensive. After thirty years of criticizing the colossus of mechanized society, Mr. Huxley can still expand his thesis delightfully...