Word: automatonism
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...would get to the end of the show. Sometimes I didn't know which way I was facing." Adds Howard: "I couldn't sleep or eat. I found it hard to focus my mind on what I was doing onstage. I became a zombie, an automaton." But, says Howard, the endless changes that were made in the show were only "like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic...
Although Pasqualini is finally transformed into a dedicated, right-thinking worker and prisoner, it is evident from his alert recognition of the method involved, even as the change is taking place in him, that he has not become an automaton. The mode of thought expected of him has been clarified; he feels supported and supportive--even more so when the French government rebuffs his written appeals. On a very basic level, his assimilation represents the kind of adjustment generally expected of its members by any social system...
...women, definite characters yet impossible to type. Like figures in a dream, they're several personae blurred into one. Monk relates that her company struggled for a year and a half to make concrete these shadows of their selves. Coco Pekalis is a tiny child, an automaton, a Peruvian peasant; Lanny Harrison, a refined matron and a tomboy. Monica Moseley reads a book, clenches her fist defiantly, carries a globe on her head as her emblem. In the same procession, Blondell Cummings carries a lizard, Lee Nagrin a tree and Monk a house...
Although some critics, including a number of top military men, dismiss him as "a good paper shuffler" and as Kissinger's errand boy within the White House, Scowcroft is hardly an automaton. He is an intellectual soldier with a superb background in international relations. A West Point graduate, Scowcroft won a master's degree and a Ph.D. in his specialty at Columbia University, also studied at Lafayette, Georgetown's School of Languages and Linguistics, the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. Fluent in Russian and Serbian, Scowcroft taught Russian history at West Point during...
...laughing from his belly while populating his imagination with his ace detective St. John Lord Merridew and a host of artful villains. Wyke's sixteenth century country house, the play's only set, is filled with bizarre paraphernalia. Among its pillars, arches, and cluttered bookcases sits a paper-mache automaton with a toothy smile. It laughs uproariously when Wyke activates it after each of his silly puns...