Word: aldous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Half-brother of Novelist Aldous and Biologist Sir Julian Huxley...
...least 3,000 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...
Koufax finally seems to have out-pitched his own luck. The Dodgers are paying him $30,000. He owns a bulging stock portfolio, part of an FM radio station and a motel. His $30,000 San Fernando Valley home is equipped with a well-stocked library (Aldous Huxley, Thomas Wolfe), stereo cabinet (Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky) and bar. Bachelor Koufax tools around Hollywood in a shiny gold Oldsmobile convertible with an assortment of beauties at his side, picks up extra change by appearing on-stage in nightclubs, and playing bit roles...
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...