Word: huxleyism
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What better can be said of a writer than that he has a lively style? Even some occasional malice can be forgiven, but in the review of Huxley's new book [Brave New World Revisited-Nov. 17] your reviewer seems to have gone beyond the malicious to the vicious. And I wonder what age would he suggest as appropriate to stop talking about the problem of overpopulation...
...space slave-one of TIME'S prophets -should have said: "Have words, cannot unravel." This nitwit lit crit dissembled a vile mess of subliminal nonsense to suggest that Aldous Huxley is a sub-pessimistic old fuddy-daddy. He treated Huxley's prognostications, fulfilled or unfulfilled, with the strangled insincerity of a man who likes to say "say it ain't so," so he says it ain't. The thought of this compulsive lop-shifter of ideas and neologisms frothing his prophylactic at the dreaming West is downright rummy...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. One of the 20th century's brightest gloomologers decides that fact has caught up with his 1932 horror fiction...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. One of the 20th century's brightest gloomologers decides that fact has already caught up with his 1932 horror fiction, what with subliminal commercials, wholesale tranquilization, and the threat of much too well-bred man crowding himself off his own planet...
...Huxley's revisitation nevertheless is a fascinating intellectual exercise for those who like to think about the shape of things that have or might come. And sometimes Huxley still sounds like the brave young worldling who wrote Crome Yellow. Most original Huxleyism is a suggested law on the lines of habeas corpus, which would be a habeas mentem for the human race. Roughly translated it would mean the right for all to say: keep your dirty hands off my mind...