Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...darting observation and febrile sensitivity of Woolf's is getting boring. Lost the argument by opening to a page at random. She says of Henry James' prose: "His pounce & grip & swing always spring fresh upon me." Ditto with her. The literary portraits alone are worth the price: Huxley, Rebecca West, old Shaw and Yeats, T.S. Eliot ("hard, spry, a glorified boy scout in shorts & yellow shirt. . . settling in with some severity to being a great...
Merkin, a former Miami News reporter, knows his turf and his people painfully well. He also knows more than enough about motivation, plot and prose. But his main virtue is an understanding of how a generation degenerates. When the youthquake started, students read Huxley's hymn to hallucinogens, Doors of Perception, for enlightenment. Merkin's delayed adolescents appear at those doors ready to shoot off the locks. -By J.D. Reed
...such as the one in Matthew 12: 36: "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Yet the risks of biased words to the unwary must be greater today, in an epoch of propagandizing amplified by mass communications. "Never," Aldous Huxley said, "have misused words-those hideously efficient tools of all the tyrants, warmongers, persecutors and heresy hunters-been so widely and disastrously influential." In the two decades since that warning, the practice of bamboozlement has, if anything, increased. The appropriate response is not a hopeless effort to cleanse the world...
...great end of life is not knowledge but action," wrote British Philosopher Thomas Huxley. There may not be a better summation of the 40th President, who slights the former but excels in the latter. The Tightness of Reagan and almost everything he has done is yet to be proved. But his presence is established, the force of his person for good or ill is now a fact of Washington life admitted by friend and foe. For him the presidency works remarkably well...
...country's equatorial climate along the coast is ideally suited to the new industry. In an operation resembling the Central London Hatchery in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, adult shrimp are fished from the sea and placed in large tanks where subtle and carefully controlled variations in light and water temperature induce breeding. Pregnant females-each producing 150,000 to 200,000 eggs-are transferred by hand to separate hatching tanks, where an average of 90,000 eggs survive to become adolescent shrimp. After 17 days, always just around dawn to avoid damage by sunlight, the young...