brave new world n Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
... (Nov. 21) 4/7 Quite a brave new world this United Nations has become. 1999 P. Majer & C. Porter Intro . K. Čapek Four Plays xi The play is a gloriously dystopic science-fiction fantasy about them and the brave new world of the men who mass-produce them. 2005 L. Menand New Yorker (Mar. 28) 78/2 Conditions in this brave-new-world Britain […] are all spooky editorial...
Brave New World ([Lit.]) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)
... New World [Lit.] The title of a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley ( 1932 ) which portrays a futuristic world in which human emotion has been eradicated, babies are bred in laboratories, and citizens are conditioned to accept their social destiny willingly. The phrase comes originally from the words of *Miranda in *Shakespeare 's The Tempest ( 1623 ): How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't! > A future world that seems to offer hope and new opportunities; also mentioned in the context of a world dominated by science,...
Brave New World Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
...visits a New Mexican Reservation and brings a Savage back to London. The Savage is at first fascinated by the new world, but finally revolted, and his argument with Mustapha Mond, World Controller, demonstrates the incompatibility of individual freedom and a scientifically trouble‐free society. In Brave New World Revisited ( 1958 ) Huxley reconsiders his prophecies, fearing that some of them were coming true sooner than he...
Brave New World Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...who visits a New Mexican Reservation and brings a Savage back to London. The Savage is at first fascinated by the new world, but finally revolted, and his argument with Mustapha Mond, World Controller, demonstrates the incompatibility of individual freedom and a scientifically trouble‐free society. In Brave New World Revisited ( 1958 ) Huxley reconsiders his prophecies, fearing that some of them were coming true sooner than he...
Brave New World Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
...Marx’, who journeys to a New Mexican reservation and brings back a Natural Man reared on ‘forbidden’ books. The Shakespeare-spouting ‘John Savage’ is at first intrigued, then increasingly disgusted by the New World's sterile hedonism—sex without consequences, the ubiquitous use of ‘soma’, an all-purpose pleasure drug—and lack of individual freedom; his debate with ‘Mustapha Mond’ is used to dramatize Huxley's own ethical scepticism about purely technological progress. Located in the ‘seventh century of Our Ford’, Brave New World deals with contemporary...
Brave New World Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)
... New World . A dystopian ( see Dystopia ) novel ( 1932 ) by Aldous Huxley ( 1894–1963 ). Its portrayal of an imagined future world state in which men and women are processed into standardized batches by genetic engineering and lifelong conditioning was originally conceived as a challenge to the claims of H.G. Wells ( 1866–1946 ) for the desirability of eugenics. The title derives from Miranda's exclamation in Shakespeare's The Tempest : O brave new world, That has such people in't! V.i Huxley's title has had its own literary influences: in John...
Miller, Steve - Brave New World Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
...Steve - Brave New World Although Steve Miller no longer sells in vast quantities he does have a massive back catalogue of high-quality albums. This was during his first musical peak and followed the landmark Sailor . There are no weak tracks, and many are now classics. He was able to move from anthemic pop with ‘Kow Kow’ (who had himself a pet alligator) to the acoustic 12-string simplicity of ‘Seasons’. ‘My Dark Hour’ features an illicit cameo from Paul McCartney, a favour Miller returned nearly 30 years later on Flaming Pie . A memorable,...
Brave New World
Brave New World (Steve Miller album)
Architecture Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...declared that major public projects would be commissioned through politicized competitions distasteful to architects. Thus the institutional link between state and profession was extinguished, and architecture for the first time in any country was effectively thrust into the brave new world of the commercial market-place without support of Crown and state. The war had one other, perhaps more profound, psychological and practical effect. While it lasted it severed Britain from the Continent, where for generations architects had travelled for training and...
African American Family Names Reference library
Simon Lenarčič
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...surnames of British origin and are often also spelled differently than the related (sur)names in other parts of the world. One group that is quite large, are (sur)names chosen in more recent times—namely, during and after the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s—among Muslim African Americans because of their new religious affiliation. Examples include: ali , which is from the Arabic personal name ʿAlī ‘high, lofty, sublime’, with a world-famous African American bearer being the boxer Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay); bey , which is from the Turkish...
Turkish Family Names Reference library
Simon Lenarčič and Sevan Nisanyan
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...had an unofficial surname with negative meaning, the head of the family usually took the opportunity and replaced it with a new, positive one, during the Surname Revolution. Family Names Based on Words Describing Human Characteristics Examples of Turkish surnames based on words describing human characteristics, sometimes in a transferred sense, include: aslan , an ornamental name or nickname from aslan ‘lion’, figuratively ‘brave man’; Aşkar (see askar ), a nickname from aşkar ‘fair-haired man’, a word of Arabic origin; Aydın (see aydin ), an...
46 The History of the Book in Latin America (including Incas, Aztecs, and the Caribbean) Reference library
Eugenia Roldán Vera
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...Similarly, French involvement in World War I also resulted in a decrease of book exports to Brazil, which in turn favoured Portuguese exports to its former American colony. On the other hand, the Mexican revolution (lasting from 1910 to c .1920 ) and the repercussions of World War I generated new intellectual trends across the continent; many thinkers were led to reconsider the cultural uniqueness of Latin America as a region in relation to other parts of the world. In the wake of nationalism and pan-Americanism, new genres flourished, especially novels...
Jihad and the Modern World Reference library
Jackson Sherman
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...of jihad in the modern world. Lamentably, U.S. actions such as the 1999 bombing of Sudan and Afghanistan, its acquiescence in the face of Israeli incursions into south Lebanon and the Occupied Territories, its talk of an impending invasion of Iraq and its saber-rattling with Iran all undermine the credibility of any presumption of a new world “state of peace.” Still, I would argue, these unfortunate challenges notwithstanding, the principle of territorial inviolability continues to enjoy general recognition throughout the world community. And it is this...
Utopianism Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...1828 ). The inhabitants of these South Sea islands are industrious, brave in war, grave and reflective without becoming melancholy, generous and liberal, humble and disdaining of servility. Their needs are limited; they trade (solely with Japan) without desiring luxury or superfluity. They are still prey to warfare, to outbreaks of public violence, to crime, and to the pangs of romantic desire unfulfilled. But a sudden change of religion converts ‘this Eden into a land of strife’, for the new religion, clearly modelled on Catholicism, is superstitious and...
German Family Names Reference library
Edda Gentry
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...just a few. In addition, mention must be made of English names, which, already changed, derive from those of originally German emigrants to England. German emigration to America took place in several waves from the 17th century onward. Although individual Germans were in the New World almost from the beginning, the first organized emigration occurred in 1683 with the arrival in Pennsylvania of thirteen German Mennonite families from Krefeld in the Rhineland. During the 18th century several small German-speaking religious groups, for instance Swiss Mennonites,...
Scandinavian Family Names Reference library
Olav Veka and Lennart Ryman
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...between 1902 and 1907. A good many of the 800,000 Norwegian migrants went back home, particularly in the period between the world wars. Most of the migrants were tenant farmers, which explains why of all the immigrant groups, the Norwegians were most likely to settle in rural areas. Concentrations of Norwegians in comparatively small rural communities gave the Norwegian language and culture favorable conditions for maintenance in the new country, and there were numerous associations for immigrants from different regions in Norway, Norwegian newspapers,...
The Indonesian Revolution Reference library
Muhammad Natsir
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...Committee of South-East Asian Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland, Southeast Asian Monograph Series No. 9, 1981), p. 31. 3. Mark R. Woodward , “Natsir, Mohammad,” in John L. Esposito, editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), volume 3, pp. 239–240. Notes ...
Romanian Family Names Reference library
Domniţa Tomescu
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...assimilation, etc.). Up until the First World War (1914–18), around 150,000 immigrants had permanently settled in the New World with their families, forming the basis of the current Romanian-American community. The second wave of Romanian emigration, that of the inter-war period, was weaker in intensity due to greater prosperity in Romania at that time, but it had a strong political motivation, especially with regard to Jewish emigrants threatened by the rise of nationalism and fascism. After the Second World War, the migration of Romanians to the US...
