Word: automatonism
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These three acts show Hoffmann and his companion Nicklaus in Paris, Venice, and an island off the coast of Greece. By straining one can find significance in Hoffman's three loves: the automaton Olympia, the courtesan Giulietta, and the singer Antonia. Then, too, Hoffmann's evil genius appears in different guises in each adventure, to thwart Hoffmann's desire. But whatever symbolism there is in the story is secondary to the purely sensual pleasure of the movie...
...Labor is not merely a commodity, to be bought and sold, used and discarded . . . Even if men are well fed, clothed and housed, it will not be enough . . . [Man] must feel that he is more than an automaton, a cog in a machine." In these forceful phrases last week, 48 business, labor and religious leaders issued what might well be called a Capitalist Manifesto...
...think something profoundly significant lies in the testimony of Benjamin Davis, one of the eleven Communists on trial in Manhattan, as reported in "Man & Automaton" [TIME, July...
...next year Davis joined the party, moved to New York City and began rising in the party hierarchy. Along the way he learned the tricks of the Communist game. Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old harassing tactics-trying to slip irrelevant evidence into the record, denouncing a ticklish question as "Hitlerian distortion," flouting the rules to the point where Judge Harold Medina threatened to lock him up for contempt as he had already locked up four of Davis' fellow defendants...
...superstition is only one phase of the nature which keeps his precision plus a 13-hour work day from turning him into an automaton. His sense of humor also helps. When a fan asked him after the Princeton game if Harvard had lost because it had not spent enough time on defense, he answered, "What do you mean? We spent all Saturday afternoon on defense...