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Upon hearing that an eyeless baby was born in Washington last week, officials of the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital revealed that they are building an artificial socket for an artificial eye in the head of a one-eyed baby. Plastic operations began 18 months ago when the baby, a blue-eyed blonde, was 18 months old. Surgeons first slit the skin where her second eye should have been and reamed out a cavity. When this healed, surgeons lined the cavity with mucous membrane taken from the inner surfaces of her cheeks. In the next few days the surgeons expect...
...blast it blew out color-even a Rembrandt in the National Gallery, even a solid ruby in a Bond Street window: one blast and they were gone ... it paled every window; drove old gentlemen further and further into the leather smelling recesses of clubs; and old ladies to sit eyeless, leather cheeked, joyless among the tassels and antimacassars of their bedrooms and kitchens. Triumphing in its wantonness it emptied the streets; swept flesh before it; and coming smack into a dust cart standing outside the Army and Navy Stores, scattered along the pavement a litter of old envelopes; twists...
...EYELESS IN GAZA-Aldous Huxley- Harper...
...EYELESS IN GAZA-Aldous Huxley- Harper ($2.50). The literary career of Aldous Huxley has been marked with many guideposts. It has not been his fault if critics have been unable to trace the stages of his development. At the age of 41 he has produced some 24 books, including novels, plays, poems, anthologies, travel books, essays, charting his progression from an accomplished satirist to a troubled moralist, from a contented mocker at contemporary society to an earnest preacher to it. Tall (over 6 ft.), extremely thin, bookish, Aldous Huxley gave up his plan to be a doctor at 17, when...
Even readers who noted Aldous Huxley's increasing seriousness could hardly be prepared for the calm didactic tone with which Eyeless in Gaza begins. The title comes from Milton's line, "Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill, with slaves," and the author announces his story as that of "a number of attempts to achieve liberty." The central character's life, Huxley says, shows "how easy it is for a man, by nature gentle, sensitive and without consuming passions, to be betrayed by weakness and evasion into disgraceful acts pregnant with the worst consequences." Eye-fass in Gaza...