Word: huxleyism
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Died. Frieda Emma Johanna Maria von Richthofen Weekley Lawrence Ravagli, 77, earthy, aristocratic mistress (1912-14), wife (1914 until his death in 1930) and muse of British Novelist D.H. (Lady Chatterley's Lover) Lawrence, presumed model for the wife of Mark Rampion, Aldous Huxley's fictional portrait of Lawrence in Point Counter Point, and wife (since 1950) of Angelino Ravagli, Italian painter and ceramist; of a stroke; in Taos...
...Psychiatrists since Freud have been busy doing for man's morals what Darwin and Huxley did for his pedigree." complained one of Britain's most respected economists and sociologists last week. This may or may not be progress, but to Economist Barbara Wootton, now a magistrate in London's juvenile courts, it presents a serious problem. In Twentieth Century she writes...
Junior Myth. Novelist Murdoch writes in the comic intellectual tradition of the early Aldous Huxley, but now the sad young Huxleymen of the '20s have grown up to be desperately dim middle-aged men in dim jobs. Murdoch's subjects are transfixed at a moment in history when those who inherit a great tradition are not enriched and strengthened by the past, but mocked and enfeebled...
Married. Aldous Leonard Huxley, 61, British-born short-story writer, essayist and novelist (Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan); and Laura Archera, 40, Italian concert violinist; he for the second time; in Yuma, Arizona's Drive-In Wedding Chapel...
...Huxley's 25-year-old satire of a scientific civilization was dramatized last week, in the first of a two-part series, on the opening show of the CBS Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m.), a revival of radio's famed experimental Columbia Workshop. From 1936 to 1947 (the year before television became a national pastime), the Workshop reigned as the top dramatic prestige program on the air. From the beginning its principle was that production, not the play, is the thing. Through an ingenious use of sound it sought to catch the mind's eye with...