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...Novelist Aldous Huxley this week published the first biography to be written in English. Father Joseph is an almost perfect subject for Aldous Huxley. The amoral novelist (Antic Hay, Point Counter Point) has become increasingly preoccupied with moral dilemmas (Eyeless in Gaza, Ends & Means) and increasingly a mystic...
What fascinates Huxley in Father Joseph is the moral dilemma of a mystic who is also a power politician, and whose whole active life is an illustration of Author Huxley's (and many other people's) pessimism about politics and history: "To all but the saints, who anyhow have no need of them, the lessons of history are totally unavailing." Huxley also finds Father Joseph very timely. "The road trodden by those bare horny feet led [through the Thirty Years War] to August 1914 and September...
This gag, Greek to the average reader, has a mystic meaning to the New Yorker staff which publishes it once a year. It is a memorial to a type of U.S. humor which The New Yorker helped to bury...
What was in the letter? What had been said at that mystic tryst off the rock-bound Coast of Somewhere? While the whole world cupped its ear, the Ministry of Information permitted correspondents to cable that His Britannic Majesty's Prime Minister had refused an option on 600 of the long, three-shilling (60?) Havanas he loves...
...hungry Athenians the historic heights of the Acropolis last week offered a mystic portent of hope. Atop the serene ruins fluttered three flags: the native blue-&-white of the tough, proud erstwhile kingdom, flanked on either side by the arrogant swastika and its impudent Italian companion piece...