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A bit of trivia, and some links...Between Heaven and Hell ... John F. Kennedy, CS Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died on November 22, 1963. What if they all met after death, somewhere between heaven and hell? ...www.christianity-books.com/ Between_Heaven_and_Hell_0877843899.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pagesNovember 22 - Wikipedia ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years ... lyricist; 1963 - Aldous Huxley, author; 1963 - CS Lewis, author; 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_22 - 19k - Cached - Similar pages 1963 - Wikipedia ... 22 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated...

Forty years ago, November 22, 1963, a paralyzed world watched the horror of John F. Kennedy's assassination, a dark day in American history many of us remember. That same day two other notable personalities quietly breathed their last and exited the world almost without notice. British writer Aldous Huxley, author of the grim, futuristic novel BRAVE NEW WORLD, died in Los Angeles. C. S. Lewis, now regarded as the most influential Christian writer of the twentieth century, also died that day at his home in Oxford. Historians continue to debate the significance of Kennedy's brief, meteoric career. In life, he...

Hartford Advocate: My Own Private Orwell Why the high priest of dystopia still matters My Own Private Orwell Why the high priest of dystopia still matters Why the high priest of dystopia still matters by Alan Bisbort - June 19, 2003 Also see cover art PETER M. MORLOCK PHOTO ILLUSTRATION Orwell with his mother in 1903 Orwell's fether in 1903 Before an Eton game, 1921 While he was still Eric Blair, late 1920s One of Orwell's early novels, 1936 Orwell in Wallington Churchyard, 1939 The animal fable that made Orwell famous, 1945 Had he lived to be an old man...

When we consider pleasure, we do a tremendous injustice if we find the entertainment media to be the sole culprit of promoting illegitimate pleasure or hedonism. The subject is far too complex a web, which we have all shared in spinning.Link to the rest of this short transcript. It can't be reproduced here in it's entirety due to retransmission restrictions.

The Guggenheim museum recently announced the finalists for the Hugo Boss prize, which is worth $50,000 and given every two years to an artist whose work “represents a significant development in contemporary art.” The finalists represent contemporary art, all right, and not only in the sense that their works are mostly silly. As Aldous Huxley knew, they are also works of artistic cowardice. Here are a few of the Guggenheim finalists, as described by the New York Times: Francis Alÿs, “who deals with the absurdity of urban life through his collaborations with local artists and craftsmen in a variety of...

Published in 1932, a novel by Aldous Huxley, entitled A Brave New World, described a fantasized society of the far future which has, as time progresses, becomes less a fantasy and more a possibility. This society controlled by an authoritarian centralized government practices mass breeding of humans in laboratories, called hatcheries, replacing normal maternal reproduction; this included mass cloning and the conditioning of groups of fertilized ova to effect classifications of humans with certain physical and mental capabilities. In addition, post birth conditioning provides psychological & physiological effects which results in selected groups having aptitudes and inclinations for specific...