Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huxley, on the other hand, finding an answer in a religion composed of all the best that's been thought and said, committed himself a couple of hundred pages worth in Ends and Means...
Following its publication, Huxley edited a pacifist pamphlet, in great part a restatement of the book. But what else has he done, what is he doing now? Is he by any chance preparing a novel, foreshadowed in Eyeless in Gaza, of an unattached man? There is no such character in fiction, he claims. Or is he merely continuing with the practical work of the pacifist movement? Had he been very active during this period it seems probable that he would have gotten into enough trouble to make the news, and hence have appeared in your pages. Has he been suppressed...
...London recently a book was published which went a long way toward filling the gap.* Written by Popularizer-Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, and containing two discs (four sides) recorded by Ludwig Koch, the book shows that a greater variety of animal sounds exists than most scientists ever suspected...
...caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
Eight Etudes for Symphony Orchestra (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) respectively dedicated by Composer Robert Russell Bennett to Composer-Conductor Walter Damrosch, Novelist-Essayist Aldous Huxley, Actor-Playwright Noel Coward, Carl Hubbell, all Dictators, Human Faith, Painter Eugene Speicher, the Ladies. They are given their first public performance by Howard Barlow's orchestra...