Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Aldous Huxley saw a Brave New World in his crystal ball (1932), he borrowed the name soma for his panacea: "There is always soma, delicious soma, half a gram for a half-holiday, a gram for a weekend, two grams for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon." That was 600 years hence, in the 7th century After Ford...
British Author Aldous (Brave New World Revisited) Huxley, 64, journeyed from his California home to Manhattan, collected $1,000 and a medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "having done the best work of our time in . . . the novel of ideas." In his acceptance speech Huxley modestly disclaimed genius, alluding to an observation by short-necked Honore de Balzac that most men of genius have short necks. Duly noting his own long neck, lanky Novelist Huxley asserted: "Genius, after all, is an alliance of head with heart, and the shorter the neck, the closer that alliance...
...heroine of course cannot raise that kind of money-but the public can and does. Aroused by the brave little woman's battle with the corporate dragon, millions of televiewers produce a deluge of dimes for a fight-the-villain fund. With Odyssean shrewdness, Kovacs pretends to yield. He makes the heroine a present of the train. Unfortunately, he announces with an evil snicker, that leaves him without a train to serve the town. The horrified townspeople turn against the heroine. Has the villain triumphed? As far as the spectator is concerned, there was never any contest. Who could...
...Ibrahim, the 85-year old Sultan of Johore, died of "genera debility." He had passed his last years quietly, watching TV. going to the theater, enjoying the company of his sixth wife, Sultana Marcella, and his adored eight-year-old daughter, Princess Meriam. "He was very rich, very brave and very, very fond of Britain," said the Daily Express, with an imperial sigh for the good old days. Men on three continents traded reminiscences about the strapping Sultan's prowess in love, tiger hunting and polo, told of his great generosity, autocratic tantrums and noble eccentricities. Some of them...
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Gallery of Western Art in Cody, Wyo. (pop. 5,872), this oversight was remedied. Now tourists, folklore specialists and art lovers alike can see in a handsome 240-ft.-long gallery the Old West in all its glory, ranging from an Indian brave's buckskin jacket with porcupine-quill embroidery and the original "Deadwood Stage" built in Concord, N.H. in 1840 to works by such master painters of the West as George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Jacob Miller, plus the entire studio collection of Frederic Remington, the greatest of Western painters, donated...