Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dreadful Joy. It has hordes of critics, and they damn it like Victorian belles stabbing a masher with hatpins. Intellectuals, Easterners and British writers, many of whom have lived happily in its sunshine for decades, snarl at its lack of culture, its brashness, its frenzied architecture. Aldous Huxley called it the "city of Dreadful Joy [where] conversation is unknown." H. L. Mencken handed down a one-word verdict: "Moronia...
...Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, builds his nightmare of tomorrow on foundations that are firmly laid today. He needs no contemporary spokesman to explain and interpret - for the simple reason that any reader in 1949 can uneasily see his own shattered features in Winston Smith, can scent in the world of 1984 a stench that is already familiar...
Quite early in its history, the Clinic began the practice of inviting visiting dignitaries and distinguished men from the University to come for the 40-cent lunch and talk with the staff. Julian Huxley, H. L. Mencken, and the psychologist Carl Jung are among the diverse visitors the Clinic has had. The late Robert Benchley also came. He arrived in the middle of the joke experiment. Benchley showed great interest in all the apparatus used to measure a person's internal and external responses to the jokes, and in a few weeks the Clinic staff was reading an elaborate parody...
...Tribune, for example, claimed that a Canadian communist "was given a job with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which was headed by Archibald MacLeish, before Julian Huxley, former London zoo keeper, took it over...
Furthermore, said Mayer, "If Julian Huxley, Secretary of the London Zoological Society (1935-42), is a former London zoo-keeper, then Colonel R.R. McCormick, President of the Chicago Sanitary District (1905-10), is a former Chicago sewage disposer...