Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a learned head in other countries. From his Orthological Institute of Cambridge and his bachelor London house, crowded with switchboards and phonographs, Ogden directs a propaganda for Basic English that is now worldwide, numbers such potent adherents as Britain's George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, America's John Dewey, Sweden's Sven Hedin, Japan's Y. Okakura. Small, spectacled, fair-haired, with a tight-lipped mouth like the late Calvin Coolidge's. from which purrs an endless stream of speech, 45-year-old Missionary Ogden is no fanatic but a scholarly...
...apparently, all Ford's growth has not yet run its course. Aldous Huxley, in his picture of the future, "Brave New World," paints a modernized world where one of the Gods is Ford; that surely, will be the final step in a great career. Perhaps it will be well to close this with a hymn, devoutly brought to us out of the future by Mr. Huxley; the emphasis on "human values" is quite evident in this hymn...
Retrospect, by Aldous Huxley. An ombus volume...
...whole process has about it an air of unconscious irony, faintly reminiscent of the educational methods pictured in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." For it is not hard to guess what type of picture the teachers will choose for their tender-minded young charges: it is almost certain to be "educational" and "uplifting," and its capacity to amuse is likely to run in indirect ratio to its capacity for moral elevation. The students will go to the selected shows because they are forced to, and they will take part in the classroom discussions as perfunctorily as they swallow...
Allistair Cook, a graduate of Cambridge University, and at present studying at Harvard under the Common-wealth Fellowship, will direct the production. Mr. Cook directed the world premiere of Huxley's "World of Light," which was produced in Cambridge...