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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under medical inspection. He must be cleanly in his habits, and he is taught the principles of food sanitation. If ill, he must not work, but is given leave of absence with pay. Refrigeration temperatures of all food are under constant check. No food is allowed to accumulate, to spell, or to be utilized as left-overs...
While some of his post-War English contemporaries were turning from disillusionment to Communism, the Roman Catholic Church and suicide, Aldous Huxley, who had fallen under the spell of D. H. Lawrence, was groping his way toward mysticism. In Those Barren Leaves (1925). he announced that it is not the fools of this world who turn mystics. In Point Counter Point (1928), which took a thinly-disguised D. H. Lawrence for its hero. Huxley attacked scientific Utopias, embraced a Lawrentian humanism, with a dash more intellect, a dash less sex. In Brave New World (1932) he knocked Utopia down...
...spontaneously as, adjusting his pince-nez and reading carefully from manuscript, the Secretary presented on every fiscal front positions which, while for the most part they were neither novel nor complete, were nonetheless the most satisfying public words Business has heard from Washington since the inception of its "Breathing Spell" two years...
What is this evil spell...
...spell that third soul," he asked...