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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20020420
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One way Huxley got attention

IT WAS fitting in its way that Aldous Huxley should die on the day John Kennedy was shot. From the moment he was born in 1894 Huxley had a knack of turning up wherever history was being made. As the grandson of Darwin's bulldog, Thomas Huxley, and the great nephew of Matthew Arnold, he seemed to embody the double inheritance of the Victorian age. Decades before C.P. Snow was worrying about the two cultures, Aldous Huxley was actually living, and trying to resolve, the enduring tensions between science and art.

As a young man he hung around the ...

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