Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unamiable cynicism over the prevailing moods and purposeless behavior of post-War English intellectuals. In Huxley's characters purpose was always identified with hypocrisy, devotion to any ideal with ineffectuality or self-deception. Between long highbrow talks, usually on science or art, his characters suffered from boredom, made love or deliberately created trouble to avoid it, were about as uniformly unpleasant a set of moral idiots as any author has created. Not until Point Counter Point, published in 1928, did Author Huxley give evidence of his dissatisfaction with his mood of vast, all-embracing negation. In Rampion, obviously modeled...
...repellent and perverse. Anthony is living with resentful, brown-haired Helen Ledwidge in the south of France when the story opens, and he has, Author Huxley establishes with his backward glances, good reasons for avoiding a clear look at his own past behavior. Helen and Anthony are making carefree love on the roof when a grotesque accident violently deflects the course of their lives. A dog falls from an airplane flying overhead. "A strange yelping sound punctuated the din of the machine. Anthony opened his eyes again and was in time to see a dark shape rushing down towards...
...blocking his way, strengthening some belief he holds about himself and the world or weakening it, forcing him at last to see that his philosophical detachment has been an escape and his moral indifference no more than self-deception. While Helen, after leaving Anthony and her husband, falls in love with a German refugee, becomes a Communist, Anthony travels to Mexico, meets a Quaker philosopher who teaches him nonresistance. Mary Amberley develops from a complete immoralist to a narcotic addict, while most of the pleasure-seekers and boredom-avoiders go to pieces in unesthetic ways. Anthony turns into a preacher...
...healthy recruit, was one whom the Prophet commanded to do likewise. He talked the matter over with Sarah and both decided to comply with the semi-divine command, provided Sarah chose the candidates. In quick succession Husband Rich took on four more wives, later a fifth. They were not love-matches. A son of Wife No. 5 once asked his mother: "Mother, did you girls love father?" Said she: "We learned to love...
...down in order that Kravnik might be. The Albanian is still just an untamed peasant at heart, but he has had a wonderful chemical training. In fact, he has discovered a new high explosive with which he plans to blow up Kravnik building by building. To the love-sharpened eyes of Lisa his little scheme is soon apparent, but no one else suspects him, even after he has blown up two of Kravnik's prize landmarks. In spite of Lisa's pleas, he firmly intends to go on from there; but in a street brawl he gets...