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Even readers who noted Aldous Huxley's increasing seriousness could hardly be prepared for the calm didactic tone with which Eyeless in Gaza begins. The title comes from Milton's line, "Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill, with slaves," and the author announces his story as that of...
The vigorous indignation with which Manhattan's critics attacked the latest Nichols production indicated that their powers of vituperation had not abated in 14 "jerky," years. They "dated," called "uninspired," "labored," Pre-Honeymoon "dull," "artificially pumped-up entertainment," "a whisky and pyjama brawl." With a great show of mock...
I have just been reading the article in your issue dated April 20, relative to the so-called "Buchman Movement."
Irak. On a plain beside the muddy Tigris lies Tepe Gawra ("Great Mound") in which trial trenches have indicated 20 or more settlements extending far back into the Stone Age. After clearing the Eleventh Level with gratifying results (TIME, March 18, 1935), Digger Charles Bache proceeded with the Twelfth Level...
. . . Generalissimo Chiang is reported to be up-country "fighting Chinese Communists" against whom ''his victories have been many" (TIME, Feb. 24). My father is living in this up-country section-his residence for thirty years -in its most Communist-infested area. He has escaped from the Communists twice...