Word: aldous
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Michael P. Abate Deborah A. Abeles Brian T. Abrams Michael S. Abramson Jaylaan Ahmad-Llewellyn Fahim Ahmed Stephanie N. Ajudua Rima Al-Mokarrab Michael E. Aldous Georgia N. Alexakis Jen J. B. Allen James A. Allison Elise B. Alschuler Mia C. R. Alvar Maneesh R. Amancharla Christopher A. Amar Jessie M. Amberg Richard H. Amberg Caitlin E. Anderson Blair M. Andresen Becky M. Antar Azunna E. Anyanwu Christina E. Anzuoni Patrick R. Aquino Ethan D. S. Ard Adam I. Arenson Eric R. Ashley David C. Atherton William F. Austin Erin L. Autry Irina Babushkina Daniel B. Baer Anna M. Baldwin...
...white light, a liberating awareness of God--that led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and Wilson's revolutionary 12-step program, the successful remedy for alcoholism. The 12 steps have also generated successful programs for eating disorders, gambling, narcotics, debting, sex addiction and people affected by others' addictions. Aldous Huxley called him "the greatest social architect of our century...
Hubble's astronomical triumphs earned him worldwide scientific honors and made him the toast of Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s--the confidant of Aldous Huxley and a friend to Charlie Chaplin, Helen Hayes and William Randolph Hearst. Yet nobody (except perhaps Hubble) could have imagined such a future when the 23-year-old Oxford graduate began his first job, in New Albany...
When science fiction gets over its trite romance with the parts catalog, it can achieve unnerving power. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell are the classic exemplars of that small, elite class of science-fiction writers who frighten and annoy science-fiction devotees. Huxley's Brave New World (1932) bursts with prescient speculation: "feelie" multimedia, Prozac-like "soma" tranquilizers, test-tube babies. Late in life Huxley became a psychedelics guru, seduced by the potent allure of brain chemistry...
...novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned future childbirth as a very orderly affair. At the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, in accordance with orders from the Social Predestination Room, eggs were fertilized, bottled and put on a conveyor belt. Nine months later, the embryos--after "decanting"--were babies. Thanks to state-sponsored brainwashing, they would grow up delighted with their genetically assigned social roles--from clever, ambitious alphas to dim-witted epsilons...