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...grand Irish fairy godmother of Massachusetts politics were to grant two wishes to the Republicans, they would wish: 1) that there were no such thing as a Democratic Senator named John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or, failing this; 2) that the Republicans could find such a man-brave, well-known, experienced, heavily coifed, well-born-who could beat the stuffing out of Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy...
...English literature. Says Shuster: "In a Julius Caesar scene, we try to do it so no classics professor would quarrel with it." They have also spoofed Mother Goose, Robin Hood, Les Miserables, and kidded the stirrups off "adult" westerns in a skit titled: "The Frontier Psychiatrist . . . dedicated to the brave men who brought mental health to the West...
...news, conventional features, and a fat assortment of advertising pages, last week handed its readers something new in its 18-year history: a thick supplement containing a new, brain-twitching book by a famed writer. The book's title: Tyranny Over the Mind. Author: English-born Novelist Aldous (Brave New World) Huxley...
Birth Boom. What Newsday's readers got was Huxley's pessimistic opinion that his fearful Brave New World is indeed close at hand. It was not until the Year of Our Ford 632 (according to the 1932 novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world...
...ends with the familiar recommendations to cut the birth rate, boost the food supply and decentralize urban life. But his recommendations seem perfunctory. Watching his stereotype of the satisfied American teen-ager pleasurably floating in a television world, Huxley sees little real hope for the future. And when the brave new world comes, he concludes, it will likely stay forever: "Men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown...