Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Heinrich Schirmbeck. A metaphysical novel about the role of science, argued with the wildly sprayed brilliance of early Aldous Huxley...
...computers wash themselves of culpability for the blinding light they have created? Is all new knowledge good? And if it is not, should scientists be controlled - by the state, for the state's ends? So Schirmbeck's characters inquire, talking essays to each other the way Aldous Huxley's people used to, and enthusiastically fogging the main issues with wildly sprayed brilliance on such matters as the esthetics of the ballet and the narrator's Oedipus entanglements...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). In this week's debate and panel discussion, Biologist Sir Julian Huxley represents the affirmative on the question, "Is international birth control needed to head off world disaster?"; Belgian Demographer Jacques Mertens de Wilmars is the nay sayer...
Touching on politics, Huxley called democracy a more "biologically sensitive" from of government than dictatorship because the wide differences in individual physiologies requires some freedom of choice...
Briefly commenting on several subjects, Huxley claimed that genius involves a "particularly active and good positive unconscious." He defined neurosis as behavior relevant "not to the present but to conditioning induced in a period of lowered resistance...