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This week, in an introduction to a new edition of Brave New World (Harper, $2.50; 311 pp.), Novelist Huxley casts a cold eye over his fantasy, firmly classes it among "the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth." It is now too late, says Author Huxley, to try and "patch up" Brave New World; all that can be done is to investigate its conclusions. Some fresh findings...
This week's issue of the Methodist Zions Herald applauded: "The FCC has done a profound service to freedom of religion. . . . One of the basic rights that must not be disturbed is the right to achieve for oneself a satisfactory conception of God. To safeguard that right, the church must recognize and defend the right of an individual to disbelieve either in partner completely...
...foreign countries work for the public is regarded as a great honor. In China to be a government official is to find out the best way to enrich oneself. People in other countries call their officials public servants, but [in China] to become an official is the quickest way to make money...
...first essential is to get out of one's head the modern and materialistic idea that the object of lying in bed is to sleep ... [it is] to enjoy oneself, and it is no more than a fortunate accident that good sleeping and waking happen to contribute to the main object. . . . Similarly, one's object in designing the . . . bedroom must be not ... to provide a place where . . . one may be able to sleep, but a place where one can enjoy oneself to the full...
...Europe. . . . France is better off than England, and Italy infinitely better off than France. [Even in England] I found it possible to eat well and cheap in London, Canterbury and other English towns. I found a similar situation in Paris. . . . One may go from restaurant to restaurant and glut oneself even in London...