Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Julian Huxley, scientist brother of Novelist Aldous, arrived in Manhattan for a lecture tour, predicted: "The U.S. will be the most powerful country when the war is over, while Europe will be a complete mess...
...sirens and the smash of explosives. BBC had been bombed; the producer of the program was trying to get his family out of a danger zone 200 miles away; it was a wet, cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert No. 3, Commander Archibald Bruce Campbell (retired), glared red-faced at his high-brow colleagues. The first...
...Questions? soon began to zoom into popularity. People liked salty Commander Campbell (" 'e's not so dumb, 'e's just got common sense instead of heducation."). They liked goat-bearded Cyril Joad because he could and would talk beautifully about anything. They liked Huxley for his precise knowledge (after a brilliant disquisition by Joad on "What is Love?" Scientist Huxley gave a direct biological answer...
...economic future of Britain to the flight of the house fly. A bomber-command pilot stirred up a national crisis in entomology by asking "How does a fly land on a ceiling? Does it loop the loop, or what?" This was a poser to all the experts, including Professor Huxley, and the more they thought about it the less sure they became. That night, in pubs all over England, flies were shooed zealously toward ceilings, fly-watchers argued long...
Gypsy has long dropped easy references to Huxley, Spinoza, "the ancients." "I've got 5,000 books up at my place in the country," she told the press once, "and I've read a great many of them. . . . Proust is a regular drug." Gypsy first crashed Manhattan intellectual circles by discreet fellow-traveling when that was fashionable. She made speeches for trade unions and took off her clothes for the Spanish Republic. More recently she has taken them off for France, Britain and the aluminum drive. Her publicity on these occasions has not been free of a smirk...