Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two dozen secret nominating sessions, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) finally agreed on a man for the top job. Their choice: Dr. Julian Sorell Huxley, 59, lean, wiry and brilliant British biologist who ran UNESCO in its warm-up stages...
...outfit devoted to the "free flow of information," they were mighty secret about it. As the delegates filed into UNESCO House in Paris (the old Hotel Majestic) to vote, three armed and mustachioed policemen checked their credentials. The press gallery was cleared, the communications system shut off. Huxley received 22 votes; three countries voted against him and two abstained...
...Delegate Archibald MacLeish broke the silence by telling the press that the U.S. had voted for Huxley. (Earlier the Americans had agitated for Francis Biddle, ex-Attorney General of the U.S. and one of the Nürnberg judges.) When the new director-general followed up MacLeish by revealing a promise to resign after two years of his six-year term, observers scented a compromise...
...Brave New World, Aldous Huxley created a repulsively antiseptic future world in which everything was done scientifically by push buttons and chemistry. Last week, as over 100,000 people trooped through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace at the National Business Show, first since 1941, it appeared that the pushbutton world had already closed in on businessmen...
...selection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, in which "urbanity, irony, elegance, skepticism, sophistication, wit, play a leading part." Twenty-one' polished pieces by Petronius, Lucian, Voltaire (all of Candide), Saint-Simon, De Maupassant, Congreve, Pope, Henry James (all of Washington Square), Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Henry Adams, etc. Excellent choices, in a finely printed volume...