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...time, had secured an influential patron (Rose Macaulay), an agent and some small renown. London literary life in the 1920s was both glittering and, with the right connections, easy to crack. "Inconceivably," Bowen wrote later, "I found myself in the same room as Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley...
...National Women's Conference the delegates traded in their Bibles for Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and a further psychological castration of masculinity. Test-tube babies, artificial wombs and government nurseries will finally give women the equality and the control over their own bodies they seem to desire so much...
...ALDOUS HUXLEY...
...interview format, it turns out, does not particularly enhance a headline service. There sit Barbara and Harry Reasoner, with backs half-turned to the camera, looking at their interview subject on what seems to be another television screen on the wall; the effect on the viewer is something like Aldous Huxley's definition of infinity: A Quaker Oats box with a picture on it of a Quaker holding a Quaker Oats box on which is a picture of, etc. A reporter bundled up against the cold reports on Congress against a backdrop of the U.S. Capitol, then is cross...
...generous provider is even less credible in the later sections of Some Time in the Sun. The talents of William Faulkner, which resulted in films like "The Maltese Falcon," "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep," go largely unappreciated by either the movie people or Dardis. Aldous Huxley, more successful in Dardis's terms because he made more money than Faulkner, spent his last years in Hollywood meditating on his own limitations. Nathanael West, forgotten in the basement of a second-rate studio where he slaved night and day to write cheap gangster flicks, had his vengeance...