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To the alienated of a latter-day generation, Huxley was all heart: pacifist, passionate pioneer of mind-blowing drugs, hippie blood brother in Oriental mysticism. But when this Aldous Huxley, shot through with cancer and LSD, died at 69-a few hours after President Kennedy-on Nov. 22, 1963, he...
Anticipating history a bit, the film ends with Victor Charlie in full retreat and the good guys in control. Even Janssen is flapping his right wing and impugning his liberal-minded employers: "If I say what I feel, I may be out of a job." Among other dubious distinctions, Green...
Oriental gongs trembled as the beautiful young dancer swayed into Khmer rhythms. The bell tones of her name signify "Goddess of Flowers," and certainly Princess Bopha Devi, 25, eldest daughter of Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, looks as serene and elegant as the white frangipani blossoms that she usually...
Nothing about the exhibit seems to fit among the musty antiquities of Assyrian Hall in the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Eye-popping red, blue and yellow paints are splashed inside the glass showcases; a lettered wheel whirls out breezy explanations in art nouveau type. Topping off the...
Picketed by strikers, many university classroom buildings were almost empty, but students and teachers convened on campus lawns or in private apartments to resume their work. One art-history instructor had his class meet him, appropriately, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a class in Oriental civilization gathered at the...