Word: huxley
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Wang built up huge inventories of ivory in Singapore in anticipation of the CITES registration. On Oct. 31, 1986 -- the last day that importation of ivory without CITES papers was allowed -- more than ten tons of Wang's ivory arrived on a Boeing 707 from Burundi. When Chris Huxley, then a CITES official, examined some of the more than 50 tons of tusks Wang owned in Singapore, he found evidence that suggested some of the elephants had not died of natural causes: "A few had light-caliber bullet damage. Some still had considerable bone attached and had obviously been removed...
...Japanese government, wrote an editorial in a Tokyo daily on behalf of CITES, exhorting Japan and the trade to assert their economic interests and oppose the ban. And Zimbabwe's position paper against the ban, to be offered at this week's meeting, was written by former CITES staffer Huxley, who received $5,000 in funding for the study from the Japanese ivory association...
Similar things had happened before: antiwar certitude (Harvard students' in 1940 booing any suggestion of saving Europe after the fall of France), literate radicalism (John Milton in the 17th century), public nudity (15th century Adamite Christians on islands in the Elbe), and drug advocacy (Aldous Huxley extolling the joys of mescaline in 1954). The generation of 1968 -- the first baby boomers -- may have been innocent of historical memory, but that did not bother them. What was important was that they felt new and different and, man, it was us vs. them, young vs. old, hip vs. square, revolutionaries against...
ANITA Loos was a Hollywood oddity, a silent movie screenwriter who was almost as famous as the actors for whom she wrote. She went on to become a prolific playwright and novelist whose sharp, witty work sustained a career that spanned seven decades. Her friends included Aldous Huxley and Cecil Beaton and she numbered William Faulkner, Winston Churchill and James Joyce among her admirers. In Gary Carey's biography, however, what emerges is a portrait of struggle and frustration...
...them commands the interest of strangers. In these letters, Wharton does. And for the rest of the time, she is an incisive guide through the glories and vicissitudes of her own amazing life. She knew everyone, from Henry James, Bernard Berenson and Teddy Roosevelt to Sinclair Lewis, Aldous Huxley and Kenneth Clark. She usually remained mute about her generosities with money and time, but the helpful annotating of Biographer Lewis and his wife Nancy fills in many gaps. She read extensively and exhaustively in a number of languages; in one letter she casually mentions enjoying a new translation of Aeschylus...