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What and Huxley
Aldous Huxley wrote that the Felix shorts proved that " What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.
# " Do What You Will " by Aldous Huxley ( 1936 )
Some Anglicans were more in favour, and Huxley reported of Kingsley that " He is an excellent Darwinian to begin with, and told me a capital story of his reply to Lady Aylesbury who expressed astonishment at his favouring such a heresy – ' What can be more delightful to me Lady Aylesbury, than to know that your Ladyship & myself sprang from the same toad stool.
Examples of Hollywood novels include The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, What Makes Sammy Run by Budd Schulberg, The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald, After Many A Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley, Inside Daisy Clover by Gavin Lambert, The Deer Park by Norman Mailer, I Should Have Stayed Home by Horace McCoy, Michael Tolkin's The Player and The Return of the Player, and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays.

What and feared
* What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Conant feared most was disruption to Harvard's tercentennial celebrations in 1936, but there was no trouble, despite the presence of Franklin D. Roosevelt of the class of 1904, whom many Harvard graduates regarded as a socialist and a class traitor.
What they feared would happen came the following year.
What the Rus ' feared would happen did not as the Mongols pursued the Prince of Galich and plundered a few towns in the south before turning around.
What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.

What and was
What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.
What a spectacle he was, caked with dirt and sweat and blood, filthy as a pig and naked as an Indian, kissing the finest, the sweetest, the bravest, and absolutely the prettiest girl in this whole wonderful world.
What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
What they wished for most was security ; ;
What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.
What was the list??
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
What was true for archaeology was also true of place-name studies.
What they meant was that there was no evidence to show that the south and east coasts of Britain received Germanic settlers conspicuously earlier than some other parts of England.
What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
What was he doing??
What Mr. Kennedy, in fact, wrote was: `` It is the Department's view that no anti-trust enforcement considerations justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ''.
What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.
What if it came when he was playing, or was asleep and dreaming??
What the hell was he up to now??

What and there
`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.
What evidence is there of an objective kind that in fact your government proposes to do just that, and that it can be done ''??
What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.
What hope lay in the nephews, she asked the intensifying light out there, with one married to a barren woman and the other divorced, having sired two girl children, with none to bear on the Packard name??
`` What room is there going to be in an apartment for any child ''??
`` What a nasty fall was there ''!!
What data there are on growth indicate considerable variation in rate ; ;
What with traders trading for so many different objectives, and what with there being so many unique and individualized market theories and trading techniques in use, and more coming into use all the time, it is hard to imagine how any particular theory or technique could acquire enough `` fans '' to invalidate itself.
( 2 ) What evidence is there that he was psychically blind??
What on earth was in Mae's mind, that she wanted him up there spying on what the cops were doing??
`` What this amounts to, if true, is that there will be a free-for-all fight in this case.
What is there about us that makes us so anxious??
What else was there to say??
The contemporary historian James W. Loewen agrees with the oral traditions in his book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong ( 1999 ), but there is not a consensus within the professional academic community.
What real wrong is there, after all, in destroying a synagogue, a ' home of perfidy, a home of impiety ,' in which Christ is daily blasphemed?
What is known is that there was a chapel in Accrington prior to 1553 where the vicar of Whalley was responsible for the maintenance of divine worship.
What fuel there was went to panzer divisions, and even then they were not able to operate normally.
What the superior man requires is just that in his words there may be nothing incorrect.
Then, the question " What was there before the Universe?
What is clear is that formally, there is mostly peaceful living side by side, with strong inter-dialogue at many levels to reconcile past differences between the two groups, and many Christians emphasize common historical heritage and religious continuity with the ancient spiritual lineage of the Jews.
The project was started by Alex Jarrett in February 1996 because he " liked the idea of visiting a location represented by a round number such as 43 ° 00 ' 00 " N 72 ° 00 ' 00 " W. What would be there?
What small story there is contains a chaste romance and lots of references to the lessons to be learned from " this strangely innocent but tragic creature.
What this boils down to is that there are thermodynamic cycles and a large number of ways to implement them.
What is often missing from the debate is that prohibiting the use of legitimate, actuarially sound factors means that an insufficient amount is being charged for a given risk, and there is thus a deficit in the system.

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