Word: huxleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London, Julian (On Living in a Revolution) Huxley gave his view of man's dilemma: "To all people at some time, and to many people much of the time, the world is an unpleasant and even horrible place, and life a trial and even a misery. Little wonder that many ideologies, religious or otherwise, are concerned with providing escapes from the unpleasant reality...
...Lady's Not for Burning is the child of poetry and prankishness-both parents springing from ancient British stock. It recaptures something of what Aldous Huxley said Elizabethan poetry had and later poetry lost: an ability to fuse comedy with lyricism...
...Gioconda Smile (by Aldous Huxley; produced by Shepard Traube) was a Huxley short story and film before becoming a play. Its trick ironic plot still had a certain crude fascination on Broadway last week; and Huxley, turned playwright, was still plainly a man of parts. But The Gioconda Smile offered mournful proof of what the stage can do to harm a piece of writing and of how time can accentuate a writer's faults...
...result, though sometimes good talk and sometimes good purple theater, is a kind of botch. The violence is not too surprising; as a satirist, Huxley has always liked to draw blood and leave welts. But beyond that, like many essentially critical talents seeking to be creative, he goes to extremes, and overcreates; when he isn't being literary, he is being lurid. And here, without the armor of style, he lunges out with every rusty saber of theatricalism. The Gioconda smile is rather a maniacal laugh. And the production-with Basil Rathbone hamming as the husband and Valerie Taylor...
...advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous Huxley's The Giaconda Smile...