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Heartfelt congratulations to New York State for giving to Nelson Rockefeller such a large welcoming majority. He is such an unselfish, well-bred man, and rich. He can afford to be generous even to his opponents. We would certainly elect him, providing he wants the job, President...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. One of the 20th century's brightest gloomologers decides that fact has already caught up with his 1932 horror fiction, what with subliminal commercials, wholesale tranquilization, and the threat of much too well-bred man crowding himself off his own planet...
...barely more than a quarter of a century since Huxley had a vile vision of mankind's future, in which a scientific power elite of cads presided over a proletariat of test-tube-bred sub-morons kept happy on a tranquilizer called soma. The elite could dispose of heretics by sending them to exile in rockets. Huxley lived to see the title of his book, Brave New World, pass into common language as a wry cliche. Now he argues that his nightmare is becoming a waking reality. Looking about today, Utopiarist Huxley is appalled to find how obediently...
...states of mind. One such state of mind belongs to men grown hidebound with inertia, teachers whose youth and fresh ideas lie behind them. These men often will oppose a change just because it is change. Another state of mind considers, as Dean Elder has put it, "a well-bred air of amateurishness more gentlemanly and becoming than down-to-earth efficiency...
Rosemary Harris came over all the way from London to play the role of Eliza; and she was certainly worth importing. She negotiated all the phonetic difficulties impeccably as she underwent the transformation from a cockney flower-girl to a lady who could pass for a well-bred duchess...