Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ursula le Guin also deals with the intellect run amuck in The Dispossessed...
From Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde through A Clockwork Orange, research scientists have been gumming things up, thereby giving the screaming fits to threatened humanists who run out to sound the alarm. In The Terminal Man, the machines, true to form, run amuck, but it is only a two-alarm panic. The twist-it can hardly be called a novelty-is that this time the machine is a man, one Harry Benson, who has had a computer implanted in his brain. Subject to unpredictable fits of rage, Benson used to beat his wife and take potshots at the neighbors...
...nature's bitter ironies that spring-the season of rebirth-also brings an irresistible, destructive force that strikes terror into the hearts of all who have experienced it. That deadly force is the tornado. Last week, as na ture ran amuck, tornadoes struck with their full fury...
...trail of the senior ex-varsity sharpshooter has not yet ended. Run amuck in the wilderness of oblivion, memories and post-season charity game ballotings, maybe, but not quite...
Brynner). Benjamin also gets to gun down Brynner on a couple of occasions, since Brynner, like all the residents of Westworld, is a robot. The automatons weary of the monotony and indignity of their life and rebel or, more properly, run amuck, as they are wont...