Word: huxleymen
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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Junior Myth. Novelist Murdoch writes in the comic intellectual tradition of the early Aldous Huxley, but now the sad young Huxleymen of the '20s have grown up to be desperately dim middle-aged men in dim jobs. Murdoch's subjects are transfixed at a moment in history when those who inherit a great tradition are not enriched and strengthened by the past, but mocked and enfeebled...
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