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...feeling aldous, he would be liverish, cold to the touch and awfully, awfully acute. So it might have happened, except that a time came when Aldous did not feel aldous any more; he felt thomas-henry. And old T. H. Huxley, the novelist's grandfather, was a solemn teacher, not a satirist. The result was that after the aldous Aldous had written Brave New World (a take-off on the sleek horrors of a mass-produced society), the new thomas-henrified Huxley deemed it his duty to map out a utopia for the betterment of the race...
...least $3,000 for his cassocks and skullcaps of scarlet and purple* (which are worn during Lent, Advent and other times of penance and mourning), his white lace rochets, silk sashes, and the splendid cappa magna - a 15-ft-long scarlet train worn on solemn liturgical occasions. As a member of the church's senate, a cardinal advises the Pope on church policy, helps run the Vatican's huge bureaucracy, and will elect one of his number to the papacy when John XXIII dies. But he is also a prince; letters to him from Catholic kings are properly...
...Night); his life has been fictionalized (by Budd Schulberg in The Disenchanted); his last mistress (Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham) has issued her memoirs; his notebooks and diaries have been edited by Edmund Wilson (The Crack-Up); and he has become a popular target for Ph.D. theses and those solemn essays in amateur psychoanalysis that often pass for criticism...
These attitudes are for the most part expressed visually. A solemn procession of little kids, including Seryozha, watch an older friend unconsciously immitate the mannerisms of his sailor uncle, whose bearing, imagined adventures and magnificent tatoos they all worship. The camera follows the delinquent escapades of Seryozha and his friends with the eye of a fellow child. Fast action and disaster, hasty exits and final parental retribution. Seryozha's loneliness during the first few weeks of his mother's marriage isolates him from the rest of the children: he is shown on the fringe of groups, always a little absent...
...major breakthroughs." Halvorson is convinced that these dedicated believers will bring new life to the church-although it may not be a church that many today recognize. "The temple is destined to become much less congested. The decrease in traffic will be accompanied by the increase of small but solemn assemblies engaged in the kind of worship that expresses its Te Deum Laudamus in the market place and civil courts. The throngs of the disenchanted will be replaced by the communities of disciplined Christians equipped to be the church as they invade the social orders...