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...tragedy of President Kennedy's assassination should not obscure completely Aldous Huxley's death of cancer the same day. Huxley's passing has removed one of the most urbane and erudite writers of this century. His catholic mind ranged through the art, science, literature, religion and history of the entire world. For forty years, he used that mind to uncover human error and weakness, but he never lost his regard for "what ever is splendid in humanity...
...Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 49, research professor of Britain's Royal Society, who works at Cambridge, and Andrew Fielding Huxley,* 45, of London's University College, the wets, have worked together in detailed study of the giant nerve cells of squid...
...Half-brother of Novelist Aldous and Biologist Sir Julian Huxley...
...years, primitive tribes have had visionary orgies at feasts of certain sacred plants, often mushrooms. The use of the peyote cactus, from which mescaline is derived, is a regular part of the Communion services of the Native American Church, composed of 200,000 U.S. Indians. Novelist Aldous Huxley wrote, in The Doors of Perception, that mescaline produced in him an effect that seemed like seeing the beatific vision. Psychologist Timothy Leary, who was dropped from the Harvard faculty last spring after receiving strong criticism for his freewheeling research in the use of LSD and psilocybin, gave the drugs...
...Huxley is clearly advocating a kind of hybridization of concepts, a fruitful interchange and assimilation of ideas. It requires, on both sides, some solid general education--the kind which could easily be taught in a decent secondary school. The limited communication possible with such a background must be recognized for what it is, but certainly should not be deplored. It can be useful, while somewhat deeper (higher level) communication might not necessarily be more valuable. There does seem to be a point of diminishing returns for a general education program, and we must accept as inevitable the fact that...