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...secured an influential patron (Rose Macaulay), an agent and some small renown. London literary life in the 1920s was both glittering and, with the right connections, easy to crack. "Inconceivably," Bowen wrote later, "I found myself in the same room as Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley...
...National Women's Conference the delegates traded in their Bibles for Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and a further psychological castration of masculinity. Test-tube babies, artificial wombs and government nurseries will finally give women the equality and the control over their own bodies they seem to desire so much...
...prayers were not answered. No less a scientist than Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley further espoused the idea in his 1863 Man's Place in Nature. Darwin won many new converts to his concept in 1871 with the publication of The Descent of Man. Most convincing of all, the fossil record continued to reveal that man had not always existed in his present form. That more primitive men might once have walked the earth was suggested when a skull was found at Gibraltar in 1848 that was more evolved than the skulls of apes but less so than that of modern...
...ALDOUS HUXLEY...
...husband. She talked long hours in Peking with the priest and eventually became embittered at his total commitment to celibacy. Teilhard could willingly suffer the privations of expeditions into the northwestern wastes of China. But he seemed more at home attending salon gatherings with personalities ranging from Biologist Julian Huxley to Actress Linda Darnell...