Word: huxleyism
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...translator who gave a whole generation of English readers the feeling that all the great Russians (Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky) wrote in the same curiously flat style. With such parental credentials, "Bunny" Garnett became almost automatically a charter member of the post-World War I Bloomsbury group, which included Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster. Those earlier friendships he wrote of in the first two volumes of his autobiography-The Golden Echo and Flowers of the Forest. In the present volume he opens, with a necrology-a list of the old familiar faces that disappeared from his world...
Looking Britishly baggy but craggily handsome, the gloomy prophet of impending automation, Novelist Aldous Huxley, 68, bravely entered the chic new world of fashion modeling. He consented to pose for Harper's Bazaar with a woolen-suited mannequin at his side. "It was no trouble at all to get him," said a Harper's editor. "A man that age enjoys having a pretty girl...
...centuries, guided by such rough-and-ready principals, Eton turned out 19 Prime Ministers, hundreds of British M.P.s, and presumably won the battle of Waterloo on its playing fields. But in this querulous century, in novels and memoirs, such latter-day Etonians as Osbert Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Cyril Connolly and George Orwell have all looked back in irony or outrage at the cult of games, the bullying and beatings, the high premium placed by school authorities on well-organized mediocrity...
...Philosophizing Wolf." Though he is one of the world's most eminent logicians, Bertie Russell has achieved ever wider cold war fame as one of its most illogical eminences. A wispy, white-maned aristocrat who, like a fictional intellectual once described by Novelist Aldous Huxley, resembles "an extinct saurian." Russell is a brooding, old-fashioned agnostic who for most of his life has been torn between his view that the human race is irredeemably wicked and his conviction that he can save it. At one time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing...
...origin of the Cambridge research group. The parts of the brain which direct awareness, he said, "usually alert us to game committments, and not much else. Everything outside and inside gets strained through the fifteen or so game patterns--computer programs--and literature, more recently Bergson and Aldous Huxley, has been telling us for centuries that this is slavery." The Cambridge group started with the close co-operation of Aldous Huxley, in whose novel Brave New World the psycho-activating drug "soma" is widely used...