Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart attack; at "Castle Rock," his Hudson River home near Garrison, N. Y. At home over the whole range of vertebrate evolution, he especially liked big animals, was a world authority on the development of titanotheres, elephants and horses. He met Darwin in London, studied under Thomas Henry Huxley after that astute scientist and mighty polemist had delivered his evolutionary blast against Bishop Wilberforce. Osborn similarly tangled with John Roach Straton and William Jennings Bryan ("The Earth," said he, "speaks to Bryan but he doesn't hear a sound"). An able administrator, he turned his museum into a splendidly...
...remote future, have testified to the despair that imaginative men experience when they try to visualize the forthcoming developments of society. Pictures of the future range from its complete lapse into barbarism presented by John Collier in Full Circle to the monotonously sanitary and inhuman order satirized by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Last week Herbert George Wells offered yet another conceivable fate for mankind with Things to Come, a scenario which London Films's Alexander Korda is now transmuting into a cinema. In his previous guesses (The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine), Mr. Wells...
CHALLENGE TO DEATH-Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.-Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against...
...James Joyce. "To my mind he is a very able man, but not different in kind from other able men; only more brilliant and ruthless than they, and with a preference for what H. G. Wells has styled the cloacal. In that field he is a past-master." Aldous Huxley "is still baffled by the number of entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. . . . He has a greater capacity for wisdom than any encyclopaedia-stuffed man of this era; and may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come...
...Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large sad grey eyes that stare intensely past the person he is talking to, Andre Malraux loves to talk, but never about himself. Says his friend and translator Haakon Chevalier, after sitting in on conferences with Paul Yalery, Count Keyserling, Aldous Huxley, Jules Romains and some 20 other leading European intellectuals: ''I can honestly say that not one of them could match Malraux for verbal artistry, for penetrating impromptu analysis of a wide range of subjects, or for knowledge of contemporary events...