Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discussing nuclear '"deterrents" with a Yale group in New Haven, Conn., British Biologist Sir Julian Huxley said: "I prefer to call them 'detergents' because we must not forget their awesome capability of literally cleaning us off the globe...
...went up in Arizona's Apache, Coconino and six other national forests. Such precautions did not prevent more than 120 major forest fires in California,.Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Flames licked through dry grasses and gutted 24 luxury homes in Hollywood Hills. Destroyed were Author Aldous Huxley's two-story house, his manuscripts and mementos of a lifetime. While firemen restrained the nearly blind British author from running into the blaze. Huxley wept like a child...
Following Huxley and Paul Tillich, Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, spoke on the changes that the new technology has brought. "We have increased the sense of effectiveness in life but have not reduced the tragic in life," he declared...
...simultaneous discussion, Aldous Huxley gave a similar answer to the question, "How Has Science in the Last Century Changed Man's View of Himself?" "Falstaffs, Hotspurs, and Feebles are still with us. Changing views of human nature and the world do not alter these basic facts; they merely alter the ways in which these facts are interpreted, evaluated, and socially dealt with...
...Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Heinrich Schirmbeck. With the verve of early Huxley, the novelist asks if science is the mote in the eye of 20th century...