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...Target, Huxley (5) 10. Final Verdict, St. Johns...
NONFICTION 1. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (1) 2. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (3) 3. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (7) 4. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 5. You Are Not the Target, Huxley 6. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (9) 7. The Living Sea, Cousteau (6) 8. Final Verdict, St. Johns (10) 9. The Feminine Mystique, Friedan 10. The Ordeal of Power, Hughes...
LAURA ARCHERA HUXLEY...
Feeling frustrated? Filled with nameless anxieties? No problem. Simply "go into a room by yourself; put on your favorite music, throw off your clothes; and dance."* So advises Laura Archera Huxley, wife of Writer-Philosopher Aldous, in her just-published collection of "Recipes for Living and Loving," entitled You Are Not the Target, and selling for $4.95. Mrs. Huxley's husband writes in his introduction to the book that "these recipes work." Readers less emotionally involved with the author may find her formulas to be, at best, ridiculous, and, at worst, risky. But lively reading nonetheless...
...Huxley sails far-distant waters. She is part Anne Morrow Lindbergh ("Listen to the sea-only listen"), part Lee Strasberg ("Become an animal; make the noises your animal makes; feel as it feels; think as it thinks; eat as it eats"), part Vic Tanny ("Hang a tether ball on a nail; punch it; punch, punch, punch"). She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism. She dips as well, unfortunately, into sheer medical foolishness, instructs readers in search of momentary relief from irritation to plunge...