Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dreamers dared hope for a postwar caterpillar with the voice of Nelson Eddy and the brains of Aldous Huxley. But cinemaddicts may soon get just that. The Walt Disney studios have announced some ambitious plans for the next five years...
...give voices to his furred and feathered folk, Impresario Disney signed up Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, the Andrews Sisters, Edgar Bergen. To supply the cartooned creatures with plots and dialogue, he has engaged such litterateurs as Novelist Huxley, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Edwin Justus Mayer, Author George Rippey Stewart, Author-Critic Sterling North and Folklorist Carl Carmer. Some Disney projects...
...picture about a co-ed college in what some people think were the good old days; but they weren't such hot days, and it's not such a hot movie, though a few Perelman gems stick out like well thumbs. For instance, the college is called "Huxley College." That's Perelman up to his old tricks again...
...Huxley plainly intended his new book to be neither a show piece of erudition nor a collection of wise old sayings and bright young remarks. Instead, he designed it as a manual of man's relationship to God, as stated by certain saints and mystics. How successfully this perennial philosophy gets across to the reader depends largely on the reader...
...Whole; 3) that man can achieve such union only by ruthlessly eliminating all human desires and illusions of a separate self, letting the divine element work and grow within him. But self-improvement faddists looking for a 15-minute-a-day course to "happiness" need not apply. Sample Huxley dicta...