Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept forgetting. Her children as you meet them first seem i depressingly small, middle-class Middle Western lot, but as you get to know them i tetter they grow to life size-not to heroic or tragic or grotesque proportions. Because Author Davis tries to tell what ,ldous Huxley calls the Whole Truth About his people there is no hero in his hook, no villain. Uncle Lincoln is a rhetorical sot and a nasty old man when drunk: but with his mother he is a different character. His wife Josie. a sinister strong woman, might easily become a heroine...
...Huxley's 19th...
Once considered a smart young bad boy of English letters, Aldous Huxley is conquering his cleverness, subduing it to a useful tool. Born a highbrow, he has become an uncommonly sensible intellectual realist. There are times in this collection of essays when he reminds you of the late forthright Enoch Arnold Bennett. The voice is similar but the hands are different: for Huxley is on the whole preoccupied with universal, not parochial, themes...
...what I have called the Whole Truth are not compatible; where one is, the other is not. ... Of all the important works of contemporary literature not one is a pure tragedy. There is no contemporary writer of significance who does not prefer to state or imply the Whole Truth." Huxley believes democracy, equality are against nature. " 'To every one that hath shall be given and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath,' is the formulation of a natural law. We can do something to limit the operation of this...
...Woman he says he founded the Adelphi purely as a vehicle for Lawrence, and expected that Lawrence would come back to England to edit it. One of the most unpopular literary men in England, Murry was the original of the cruelly pilloried Editor Burlap in Aldous Leonard Huxley's Point Counter Point...