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...Point (1928), which took a thinly-disguised D. H. Lawrence for its hero. Huxley attacked scientific Utopias, embraced a Lawrentian humanism, with a dash more intellect, a dash less sex. In Brave New World (1932) he knocked Utopia down for another count of ten. The hero of Eyeless in Gaza (TIME, July 13. 1936) turned out to be a thoroughgoing pacifist, with a philosophy combining features of Yogi, Buddhism, other Oriental mysteries. After this last novel, it looked as if Huxley, saved himself, was now ready to save the world...
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...
Starved for troops by the High Command, whose eyes were glued to the Western Front, Allenby launched a campaign up the coast of Palestine, taking Beersheba, Gaza, Bethlehem and Jaffa, splitting the Turkish armies. On Dec. 9, 1917, without firing a shell into the Holy City, he walked into Jerusalem, in deference to the Arab legend that Jerusalem's conqueror would enter on foot. Thenceforth the Arabs respectfully called him "El Nebi" ("The Man on Foot...