The Genius and the Goddess by Aldou... Nov 17, 2009
The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley. The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley ... Aldous Huxley's little-known novella, The Genius and the Goddess is written in an uncharacteristic lyrical style and deals with a subject one would not expect the author to tackle: adultery and teenaged angst. (Suite101.com)
THE SOURCE at CUBITT: Public Lecture Fri 13 November Nov 10, 2009
Featuring work by artists Andreas Bunte, Mary Ellen Bute, L;szl; Moholy-Nagy, Paul Sharits, Mark Titchner and Jennifer West, with literature by Aldous Huxley, Robert Lynd, Lewis Mumford, John Ruskin and William Grey Walter. Limited capacity, no booking required. (AbsoluteArts.com)
The authoritarian patriot Nov 3, 2009
"I see that marble conceals a multitude of sins," remarked Aldous Huxley on seeing the Taj Mahal. In the same manner, the fact that she died a martyr's death - and after contemptuously rejecting advice to purge her staff of Sikhs - has led to a posthumous evaluation of Indira Gandhi that exculpates or ignores her very many mistakes. (BBC News -- South Asia)
View From This Side: What would you miss most, if you never had it ... Oct 23, 2009
View From This Side: What would you miss most, if you never had it again - Hanover, MA - Hanover Mariner. View From This Side: What would you miss most, if you never had it again. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
Jane Austen meets Sex and the City Oct 19, 2009
Aldous Huxley s 1940 version, Amis added, was cold proof that any tampering will reduce the original to emollient inconsequentiality. And so here we are again back at Emma. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
High schools diversify their literature Oct 11, 2009
Its really cool because (Aldous Huxleys Brave New World) was written in 193(1) ... Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
What would Jesus do? (303) Sep 30, 2009
cedarchopper wrote on Sep 28, 2009 10:43 PM:" The interesting points about "health care reform" are in the architecture of the legislation ...a National ID Card that will interface every aspect of your life, including your financial accounts. This will all fit in with the security grid that been overtly and covertly built with the ability to record and track every activity...Total Information Awareness, everybody remembers that, right? With the Federal Government in control of health care, your... (Boerne Star, TX)
All the golden gossip from the British Science Festival Sep 8, 2009
Such as mathematician and Alice in Wonderland author, Lewis Carroll; Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and - er - Harry Secombe. Aldous' grandfather, the polymath Thomas Huxley, once spoke at the science festival in 1860. (BBC News -- Science)
T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" Sep 6, 2009
Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow. James Joyce, Ulysses. (Suite101.com)
cartoon: Huxley v. Orwell (via Neil Postman) Aug 15, 2009
Aldous Huxley vs. George Orwell. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. (Harper's Magazine)
Obama: Ending is Better Than Mending Aug 12, 2009
In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote a tale of a future he feared might occur, , in which he described a secular, consumerist society of self-absorbed, drug-numbed and purpose-bred promiscuous peons that were both totally provided for and absolutely controlled by a paternalistic overclass that kept everyone employed, busy and close enough to happy. They did this, in part, by brainwashing the infantile masses into believing that frugality and conservation were crass. (Human Events Online)
The Fives: A study in threes, as in, do celebs always meet their maker that way Jul 2, 2009
Aldous Huxley, President John Kennedy and C.S. Lewis ... They probably don't remember hearing about the deaths of authors Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis on the very same day. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
past celebrities whose deaths were eclipsed by more important deaths Jun 30, 2009
Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, died the same day as C.S. Lewis, who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia series. Unfortunately for both of their legacies, that day was November 22, 1963, just as John Kennedy's motorcade passed the Texas School Book Depository. (Harper's Magazine)
interview with Michael Moorcock Jun 19, 2009
"? Pretty much now. There might be a little bit of tweaking in future, but nothing special. In fact I've done the reverse with the current Del Rey Elric books where I've republished them in their original order. At least where fantasy books are concerned. But I suspect if I ever had the time I'd do some revision on the Pyat books and maybe a little on Mother London. Which artist has best depicted your idea of Elric? I'm partial to Micheal Whelan. I love Whelan's stuff but his Elric's just a... (Harper's Magazine)
City band begins 2009 season Sunday evening Jun 6, 2009
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -- Aldous Huxley, novelist. Many of you will have a present-day image appear in your head at the mere mention of Fort Madison's Central Park. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
Today in History May 27, 2009
Thought for Today: "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." Aldous Huxley, English author (1894-1963). Related Searches. (Yahoo News)
Can People Learn While Sleeping? May 22, 2009
In Aldous Huxley s novel Brave New World, hypnopaedia was discovered after a Polish-speaking boy named Reuben Rabinovitch, who had fallen asleep while listening to an English radio broadcast by George Bernard Shaw. When he awoke, he could recite what he had heard, word for word even though he was English-illiterate. (Suite101.com)
Summer Time Is Sun Time for Vitamin... May 20, 2009
" John Cannell. M.D. of the Vitamin D Council quotes Aldous Huxley: "Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. " This was quoted as a direct reference to the sun's importance regarding vitamin D in his 02/02/05 article featured on Dr. Mercola's website . How Sunlight Helps Create Vitamin D Vitamin D is actually not a vitamin. That label was assigned out of ignorance in the early 1900's and has stuck since then. Because it can be created by the skin's exposure to the sun and then... (Suite101.com)
Leading Change in Troubling Times May 16, 2009
What Good Leaders Need to Drive Change. Leading change is never going to be a popular or commonly understood and supported undertaking. (Suite101.com)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
They re not all literary, but: Brian Aldiss, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett (Watt and Murphy in particular), Saul Bellow, Alfred Bester (especially Tiger, Tiger), Enid Blyton, Jorge Luis Borges, John Brunner (especially Stand On Zanzibar), Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers and The Favourite Game), Ivor Cutler (Life in a Scotch Sitting Room), Samuel Delaney, T. S. Eliot (especially The Waste Land), Gunter Grass (the early works, especially The Tin Drum), Robert Graves,... (Suite101.com)
Top 10: Gaming Dystopias Apr 10, 2009
Creative minds like George Orwell, Ayn Rand, Ray Bradbury and Aldous Huxley have explored that idea extensively in fiction, shaping our modern understanding of the dystopia -- or anti-utopia -- along the way. Videogames have proven especially adept at presenting dystopian visions over the years, building on the work of novelists, filmmakers and other artists to bring a new level of experience to the topic: immersion. (IGN PS2)
U-Z Oxford and Cambridge Writers an... Mar 23, 2009
X used in spelling Aldous Huxley. Huxley was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and he is most famous for writing novels such as Brave New World (1932). (Suite101.com)
Vermont painter George Tooker made waves in the art world Mar 1, 2009
"Gradually Tooker's themes became less explicitly social and more frankly spiritual. His light, in paintings like "Woman with Oranges" (1977), and "Embrace of Peace II" (1988), came to be suffused with warm oranges and yellows that seem not just to reflect light but to generate it from within.Certainly, there is something anachronistic about Tooker's work. There always was. To be painting in egg tempera in the painstaking manner of Piero della Francesca just as Pollock was treating the canvas as... (Boston Globe)
