Word: automaton
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...proceed to take the step I suggested." The faces of party members were wreathed with smiles, but Nehru was grim: "An atmosphere is growing in India that I found not only disturbing but suffocating." His own work had come to be the work of "some kind of robot or automaton ... I was physically fit but getting querulous. I sense coarseness and vulgarity growing in our public life. In the Congress Party and the whole country idealism is fading out. We in India suffer from a split personality. One part is of the highest moral standard. The other part completely forgets...
...lament about such bosses as Host Storz, a onetime disk jockey whose four-station chain (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Mo., New Orleans, Miami) makes big profits out of relentless plugging of the "Top 40" pop tunes. They protested that this formula is turning the disk jockey into an automaton, stripping him of the "personality" that is his stock in trade...
...shirts, bowling alleys, towering commercial hotels, overstuffed clubs buzzing with shoptalk and big deals. It is a city of salesmen, technicians and craftsmen, mechanics and makers of chemicals, furnaces, tools, dies and household appliances. Almost half of its employed population are the 320,000 workers who perform the automaton labor of the auto plants. They speak to the world through such trumpet-voiced agents as red-haired Walter Reuther-and speak so loud they are now among the best-paid workers in the world...
...hated school, liked the poetic parts of the Bible, but had no interest in religion or "that stupid automaton, the preacher." Work he always hated ("Never do anything today that you can put off till tomorrow"), but the golden touch never deserted him. When he left the farm to go to Detroit at 18, it was to learn the drugstore business. He quit at the.end of the first week when he learned his apprentice wage: 50? a week. Within a year he was circulation manager of the Detroit News and, thanks to his commissions, was making more than the owners...
...suffers by being fragmented; Frederick Ashton's choreography consists chiefly of short interludes, beautifully danced by Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Ludmilla Tcherina, Robert Helpmann, and the Sadler's Wells Chorus. Miss Shearer's best work is shown in the "Dragonfly Ballet" of the prologue, and in the automaton's dance of Act I. Helpmann appears successively as Lindorf, Coppelius, Dappertutto, and Dr. Miracle--Hoffmann's magnificently sinister enemy. He turns up unexpectedly with such insistency that the film might well be called "Tales of Helpmann...