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ALDOUS HUXLEY, by John Atkins; THE HUXLEYS, by Ronald W. Clark. Human being or controlled experiment? Guru or walking encyclopaedia? The often contradictory legend left by this brilliant member of a renowned intellectual family is examined by two biographers who almost find the missing link...
William Benton, LL.D., board chairman of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...audience gathered to hear a lecture on "The Art of Forgery," Noble displayed a Greek bronze statuette of a horse, bought by the museum in 1923 from a Paris dealer, that has been hailed by critics as "the quintessence of the ancient Greek spirit." It is pictured in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and dated circa 470 B.C. In fact the horse, said Noble, is early 20th century...
...full text is published by Harper & Row, and the cut-down Russian version by Grove Press. Doubtless the U.S. publishers are right in claiming that the novel is "the most talked-about literary work in Russia today." Bulgakov, who died in 1940, is officially described in the Soviet Encyclopaedia as "a slanderer of Soviet reality." The work can now be seen for what it is: a seriocomic parable of great satiric force that draws its strength from a source still unacceptable in Russia-the Scriptures...
...insists Mihajlov, who charged in court that Yugoslavia is a totalitarian state. When challenged, he said: "In a society in which only one party exists, where a single man is head of state and at the same time head of the army and the party, then look in the encyclopaedia and you will find that that is totalitarianism." In fact, he added brazenly, the one-party monopoly of government, which is nowhere mentioned in the Yugoslav constitution, is far more illegal than his own writings. "My ideas are socialist and democratic," he said, "but a small handful of people, some...