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...eleven o'clock the Vagabond will hear Professor Howard Mumford Jones lecture on, in addition to D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Aldous Huxley, James Joyce in Emerson...
...languages, uncompromising enemy of Victorian conventions, first Englishman to enter Mecca, first to explore Somaliland, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, famed swordsman, author of 40-odd books including a 15-volume translation in English. The result is a leading portrait in that gallery of "indomitable madmen who," as Aldous Huxley says, "have made the British Empire and English literature the extraordinary things they...
...becomes acting president of the college. Bob Jones Sr. writes a syndicated column for 200 southern newspapers, gets out a weekly called Fellowship News. No hellfire evangelist, "Dr. Bob" is zealous, says proudly: "We don't hire any teacher who believes in Evolution. We tell students about Darwin, Huxley and Spencer, but we also tell them that evolution isn't science, it's guesswork...
EYELESS IN GAZA-Aldous Huxley- Harper...
...were invulnerable, but presently his eyelids drooped and he slowly collapsed in a trance, with one arm outstretched like a dozing farmhand's and one foot comfortably resting on the opposite thigh (see cuts). In this "torpid condition" he remained for seven minutes-a spectacle at which Biologist Huxley goggled in utter astonishment. Dr. Thoma had no way of ascertaining what was going on in Peter's subconscious mind during the experiment, but smilingly declared: ''This initial success with the chimpanzee fills me with optimism...