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Huxley 1. Aldous (Leonard) . 1894--1963, British novelist and essayist, noted particularly for his novel Brave New World (1932), depicting a scientifically controlled civilization of human robots 2. his half-brother, Sir Andrew Fielding, born 1917, English biologist: noted for his research into nerve cells and the mechanism by which nerve impulses are transmitted; Nobel prize for physiology or medicine shared with Alan Hodgkin and John Eccles 1963; president of the Royal Society (1980--85) 3. brother of Aldous, Sir Julian (Sorrel). 1887--1975, English biologist; first director-general of UNESCO (1946--48). His works include Essays of a Biologist (1923) and Evolution: the Modern Synthesis (1942) 4. their grandfather, Thomas Henry. 1825--95, English biologist, the leading British exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution; his works include Man's Place in Nature (1863) and Evolution and Ethics (1893) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Ayn Rand, and other
gifted writers have created fictional dystopias that illustrate
totalitarian methods at work. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, James
Joyce and Ernest Hemingway, to mention a few, evoke images of solitary,
alienated people who, together, form a community of the isolated"
("Treatment" 1). Still, the
new is sometimes a process of transgress and regress, not progress, and
Ishiguro offers a cautionary tale for the twenty-first century in the
tradition of William Golding and Aldous Huxley. |
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