Word: automaton
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...pots and arrogantly commands him to reshape them in the image of the Hand. When the potter refuses, it plies him with presents. When he continues to refuse, it threatens him with death. Finally it ties strings to his head and hands and turns him into an automaton that mass-produces Hand after Hand after Hand...
Perhaps more to the point, the Bonn government is also disturbed-and though Lufthansa is independently operated, the government owns 75% of its shares. Last week one government bureaucrat accused Lufthansa of "stressing negative aspects of the German character." Said another: "They present the German as an automaton, a creature without a soul. We can't be happy about that...
Rosewall, however, does most of his thinking on the tennis court, where he has been called "an automaton guided by an electric brain." For 77 punishing minutes, before a near-record turnout of 13,541, he resisted a Gonzales onslaught marked by a dazzling echo of the towering serve of yesteryear and a Gonzales rush to the net in an effort to seize the lead. The crowd roared for their longtime favorite Gonzales. Slowly, methodically, Rosewall worked his opponent back to the base lines, until Gonzales yielded 7-5, 7-5, with a disgusted "Oh, no" as his last easy...
...crass misconception. In the current issue of FORTUNE, Bush explains that so exaggerated a faith in the powers of science is a residue of a naive 18th century belief in absolute "laws of na ture, based on observation and measurement." In this view, man himself is "merely an automaton, his fancied choice of acts an illusion," and the universe a great mechanical contraption ticking away according to a "neat set of equations." Thus, by observation, man "would be able to understand all nature and predict all the future...
...President Johnson is your softest choice since that automaton Elizabeth II of England was named Woman of the Year for just stepping into her dead father's shoes...