Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What better can be said of a writer than that he has a lively style? Even some occasional malice can be forgiven, but in the review of Huxley's new book [Brave New World Revisited-Nov. 17] your reviewer seems to have gone beyond the malicious to the vicious. And I wonder what age would he suggest as appropriate to stop talking about the problem of overpopulation...
...space slave-one of TIME'S prophets -should have said: "Have words, cannot unravel." This nitwit lit crit dissembled a vile mess of subliminal nonsense to suggest that Aldous Huxley is a sub-pessimistic old fuddy-daddy. He treated Huxley's prognostications, fulfilled or unfulfilled, with the strangled insincerity of a man who likes to say "say it ain't so," so he says it ain't. The thought of this compulsive lop-shifter of ideas and neologisms frothing his prophylactic at the dreaming West is downright rummy...
Your review was well submitted. The only trouble with Huxley's preaching is: those he preaches of do not read his books, but those who do read them either do not agree with him or will not act if they do agree...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. Fact has caught up with his 1932 horror fiction, argues Huxley, and he, for one, is reappalled...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. One of the 20th century's brightest gloomologers decides that fact has caught up with his 1932 horror fiction...