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Impossible of Solution. Meanwhile, for the delegates, there was still the problem of how to enlighten the world. In a 115-page report, Britain's neon-bright Biologist Julian Huxley told the delegates what had been done in this direction during his second year as director general. His report mentioned a "pilot project" in Nyasaland for the education of natives in literacy, health, agriculture and commu nity living. There had been a survey started on re-education in Germany, and the launching of an "Inquiry into the Tensions Affecting International Understanding," to find out why people...
There were many other projects, all worthy, all vague, and mostly unfinished. An investigation in Haiti, said Dr. Huxley, had disclosed that Haiti's problem "is fundamentally one of overpopulation, soil erosion and disease, and is impossible of solution only or mainly by educational methods." "People generally," remarked George Allen dryly, "are impressed by finished jobs." Later on, stocky, practical U.S. Delegate Anne O'Hare McCormick cried in desperation: "What is the precise role of UNESCO? It's becoming more and more vague. We are constantly being called upon to make studies and promote. Promote what? What...
Beyond Nakedness. The trouble with most people who look at a painting, said the experts, is that they can't see the leaves for the tree-and consequently don't recognize what kind of tree it is. Said Novelist Aldous Huxley: "A person who looks at a Titian solely because it represents a naked woman is not getting the full content of the picture...
...biography of a family" is devoted to the new forms of literature, music and painting that took root in Britain after World War I. But the old Victorian form of father, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., makes the other characters (even such brilliant ones as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot) look slightly dwarfish. Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on him, Waugh simply became incapable of speech -"struck mute, in a kind...
...Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting...