Word: huxleyism
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...ALDOUS HUXLEY...
...Aldous Huxley swallowed a small quantity of mescaline and sat back in the California sunshine to contemplate the infinity of wrinkles in his trousers. The following year he described his psychedelic confrontation with gray flannel in The Doors of Perception. ,"How rich, how deeply, mysteriously sumptuous," he wrote. "The nearest approach to this . . . would be a Vermeer...
Very nice for the early '50s, only Huxley was not wearing gray flannel but blue denim. As he explained to a friend, his wife had made him change his pants in the manuscript because "she thought I ought to be better dressed for my readers...
...marching ants, Paramount will present The Haephestus Plague, a double whammy in which another earthquake disgorges thousands of carbon-munching giant cockroaches from the bowels of the earth. "We are breeding and training real South American bugs," says Producer William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen-Castle is planning a floor-mounted windshield-wiper device that will softly brush across moviegoers' feet and ankles at crucial moments...
...Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster. Last week, when Eaton turned 90, he received congratulatory telegrams from President Podgorny, Premier Kosygin and Party Leader Brezhnev, as well as Chicago's Mayor Daley, Senator William Fulbright and Sir Julian Huxley. Turning up at a reception given by the mayor of Cleveland, Eaton was optimistic about the energy crisis. "We will harness the sun and the power of the tides," he predicted. "We'll not let the world stand still because of a lack of energy...