Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown Nigerian who painted an insanely gay parade on a wall at Umuahia about 1935. UNESCO director-general Julian Huxley had seen it there, contributed his photographs of the mural to the show...
...Useful Hypothesis." Julian Huxley is a nervous and abrupt man with somewhat the same kind of awesome intellect and donnish wit as his younger brother, Aldous (Brave New World).* Julian's tongue hurts as often as it humors; he was once described as "alternately cherub and pickle." In his picklish mood, he often puts people off with a burst of terrifying temper. Some delegates had reservations about picking a man who has professed atheism ("I do not believe in God, because I think the idea has ceased to be a useful hypothesis"), birth control, eugenic mating, state planning...
...Oxford graduate, Huxley has taught biology there and in the U.S. (at Texas' Rice Institute), is a veteran "brainstruster" on the BBC equivalent of Information Please. He is the author of some 30 books (among them: On Living in a Revolution, Bird-Watching and Bird Be havior...
...many years Huxley was director of the London Zoo, took a lion cub along to one of his Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. During the blitz he helped corner a zebra that escaped when a bomb scored a direct hit on the Zoo. As a "safety valve" for his scientific work, Huxley writes intellectual doggerel (sample lines: And heavenly matter Is mad as a hatter -Just atoms daemonic, A dance electronic...
...also the grandson of Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, grandnephew of Critic Matthew Arnold, nephew of Novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward, son of Biographer Leonard Huxley...