ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Point Counter Point, novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1928. In his most ambitious and complex work, Huxley offers a vision of life from a number of different points of view, using a large cast of characters who are compared to instruments in an orchestra, each playing his separate portion of the larger piece.

Detailed explanation-2: -Point Counter Point, novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1928.

Detailed explanation-3: -The novel is a satire of intellectual life in the 1920s, populated with characters based on such artists, politicians and intellectuals of the times as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, as well as Huxley himself.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shana Alexander (October 6, 1925 – June 23, 2005) was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the “Point-Counterpoint” debate segments of 60 Minutes, in the late 1970s, with conservative James J. Kilpatrick.

Detailed explanation-5: -The “Point-Counterpoint Method” works like this: Divide into two groups. Group A develops a proposal, fleshing out the recommendation, key assumptions, and critical supporting data. Group A presents the proposal to Group B in written and oral form. Group B generates one or more alternative plans of action.