Word: huxleyism
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Roosevelt began to collect animal specimens, including fireflies and squirrels. He filled his notebooks with drawings and life histories of animals and insects, such as the common black ant, and then read Darwin and Huxley, who helped him ponder how Homo sapiens coexisted with the so-called lesser creatures. When the American Museum of Natural History unpacked 2,200 mounted creatures from the collection of the Verreaux brothers, French naturalists, the unabashed young Theodore donated his own mounted menagerie--a bat and 12 mice...
...Esalen institute?the 44-year-old spiritual retreat once infamous as a flashpoint of the hippy movement?is offering a spectacular new high. And this time, it has nothing to do with the LSD-inspired antics of past luminary visitors such as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. Instead, the not-for-profit seminar center?set amid a spectacular 165 acres of California's Big Sur coastline?has thrown open its extensively renovated thermal-spring baths to the public. You need to pay a $20 fee and make an advance reservation...
...like breakfast on a sunny morning," Christopher Isherwood confessed to his diary in 1941 when he was a recent arrival in Hollywood, writing scripts for MGM. Nine pages later, he's not only describing the Marx Brothers jumping all over Somerset Maugham, "screaming like devils," but also watching Aldous Huxley and Charlie Chaplin singing old London music-hall songs on the Santa Monica Pier. No wonder the unchanging center of Isherwood's life, the Hindu Vedantist teacher Swami Prabhavananda, asked his worldly disciple to bring the Duke of Windsor to his Hollywood temple: Isherwood was the rare Hollywood Hindu...
...doctors in the White House medical unit. In that 11-min. speech, set not in the Oval Office but against an expanse of Texas prairie, the President talked about the dream of wiping out Alzheimer's disease and childhood diabetes but also of the nightmarish "hatcheries" of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The issue, Bush declared, "lies at a difficult moral intersection, juxtaposing the need to protect life in all its phases with the prospect of saving and improving life in all its stages." The government would move forward carefully, he promised, providing federal money for research on cell...
Atwood says her scientific background helped her when she began work on Oryx and Crake. The book, which reviewers have likened to the best of Orwell, Swift and Huxley, is narrated by one of the survivors of a genetic holocaust...