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Bubbling Elspeth Huxley, photographer, big-game hunter, agriculturist and mystery writer (latest: The African Poison Murders), cousin-by-marriage of Aldous and Julian, told a Manhattan reporter how she had her personal devils exorcised by black tribal quacks in Kenya Colony, British East Africa: "There was a lot of mumbo-jumbo with a goat, for which I paid three shillings. The witch doctor chalked up my face and between my toes. I did as I was told until I was supposed to lick the intestines of a goat. I hired a substitute for a shilling, being assured that this wouldn...
AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN -Aldous Huxley-Harper...
...Aldous Huxley whose early books so skillfully anatomized human viciousness and human hopelessness is no more. With Eyeless in Gaza he turned to painful self-searchings. With Ends and Means he grew stonily didactic. One of the gifted moral satirists of modern times, he had become, by logical development, a definitely religious man. He still is, but in his new book he turns to his earlier technique: uses once more the light realistic fantasy and the sharp surgical analysis which first made him famous, but uses them to say the most serious things he has ever...
...Swan" of Huxley's sour fable is Jo Stoyte: old, half-mad with wealth and power ("they are the same"), desperately hanging on to his sexual potency, desperately afraid of its loss, of age, of death. In his gigantic ferroconcrete château in Southern California he lives with his young mistress, Virginia Maunciple, a born courtesan with a short upper lip who frequently repairs, for penitence, to the "Lourdes Grotto" which "Uncle Jo" has built for her. Jo's other mainstay is sleek, Levantine Dr. Sigmund Obispo, who keeps the old man hopped up with hormone injections...
...Disagreeing with Playwright Shaw was Biologist Julian Huxley, who chose the London Times as his forum: "We cannot survive as a great power unless we smash Hitlerism; but if we are to prevent the growth of a new Hitlerism later, we must plan some kind of new international order." Scientist J. B. S. Haldane, who as a rule has fairly fresh ideas, wanted: 1) peace negotiations now; 2) an arrangement for "all peoples to be allowed free elections to determine their own form of government," a faithful echo of 1919 Wilsonian self-determinism...