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...phenomenon of such elephantine best-sellers as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind first-line critics have contributed little except a few quarantine signs'. Those signs, mostly ignored, warned generally against what Aldous Huxley calls "that doughy, woolly, anodyne writing [which] ... we read because we suffer when we have time to spare and no printed matter with which to plug the void . . . because the-second nature of habituated readers abhors a vacuum. . . ." That readers continue to put their faith in publishers' ads rather than critics' warnings was well evidenced by the case of the fat historical...
...England star performers, brilliant writers, more or less celebrated scientists with strong personal views have borne the load. The best known books of Eddington, Jeans and Bertrand Russell are as much treatises on their personal philosophies as they are skilled explanations of Relativity and quantum mechanics. Biologist Julian Huxley, brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of the late great Evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley is noted for his opinions about Science & Society, and for exposing the anthropological fallacies of Nazi Aryanism, although he has written (with a collaborator) two general books for laymen. Simple Science and More Simple Science. Burly...
...eyed Biologist Julian Sorell Huxley predicted at Nottingham that the old dream of eugenists-human breeding by selected males and females only-would actually be put into practice within one or two generations. Said Dr. Huxley: "When people get used to the idea they will accept it just as they have accepted birth control...
Since Aldous Huxley wrote Antic Hay in 1923, fair-minded U. S. readers may have felt that the English upper classes were getting a raw deal in modern English fiction. The works of Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Firbank and lesser observers of the upperworld contain few characters above the rank of a knight or above the ?5,000-a-year income level who are untouched by insipidity, depravity, or both. This week the far less satiric Sylvia Thompson (The Hounds of Spring) contributed another long, episodic novel depicting some unsavory doings among the best people. Since Recapture the MOON...
Soviet science may be laggard in prestige and solidity, * but it is certainly not so in imagination. A report from Moscow's Laboratory for Aviation Medicine last week reminded observers of the conditioning courses for newborn and unborn babies described in Brave New World, Novelist Aldous Huxley's sarcastic peek into a lurid future. The possibility raised in Moscow by the experiments of Professor V. V. Streltsov was that of training young Reds to become stratosphere pilots who would thrive in the tenuous upper air. have no need of oxygen from tanks...