Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aldous Huxley, nephew of the great Darwinian, smart, fashionable, blasé, ice-cold, most devilishly clever of all the devilishly clever young littérateurs who make the waterside, of Chelsea inundate all London with lavender and mauve intellectual meanderings, has written down his opinion of the popular music of today. The essay has been published-in Vanity Fair. It defends the thesis that the evolution of popular music has run parallel, on a lower plane, with the evolution of serious music. Beethoven, ultimately and indirectly, is responsible for all the lan- guishing waltz tunes, all the dramatic jazzings...
...When the white men were living in caves and were barbarous, we Negroes gave them a civilization they snatched away from us. We will rebuild a civilization on the banks of the Nile which will never pass away until Gabriel blows his horn. Darwin and Huxley said we were monkeys...
...Prof. Huxley, of the School of Mines, London−Grasped the truths of Charles Darwin, refined, elaborated them to serve as the key to modern biological sciences...
...battle of Waterloo because of a stomach ache. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, was in the habit of eating a heavy dinner and going immediately to bed--where he regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from overeating." It seems established that while the diet can neither produce nor defeat genius, it can nevertheless distort its application and profoundly affect disposition and character...
ANTIC HAY-Aldous Huxley-Doran ($2.00). Of Theodore Gumbril, sometime Oxford tutor, and his superb invention - Gumbril's Patent Pneumatic Trousers-They Protect the Lumbar Ganglia and Lend Incisive Poise to Businessmen. Of his extraordinary exploits in Love and Business, under the beaverish protection of a huge, artificial beard. Of Casimir Lypiatt, the boomingly futile would-be genius-and Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around...