Word: automatonism
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Perhaps in recent defeat it was an automaton whom the graduates wanted, a machine to produce for them winning teams, whatever the cost. Unable to keep faith under the change of fortune, they joined their voices with those of the outsiders who clamored for a great professional system at Harvard, for a coach to beat victory out of his players. They must have forgotten in the disappointment of the moment what Fisher had previously accomplished when such success was taken for granted...
...Katherine Louise Emily Willoughby had to reconcile the talents, passions, ambitions of these people. So she adopted the accurate sobriquet, Unity, and spent her life trying to make it fit. She married a man, Brian Jessup, who went in swimming drunk, at midnight, in Sidney, Australia. She married an automaton, Michael Lord Mowbray, of whom she felt she was unworthy because he could not understand her. But only Adrian Gore, the man with the grey eyes, could give her Unity. This book is the elegant elaboration of a somewhat frayed psychological formula. It fails to convince because the author attempts...
...stature of Lincoln, public opinion is at once skeptical and on the defense. When, on the other hand, The New York World, or Mr. Joseph T. Robinson, minority leader in the Senate, impale him upon a phrase like "the creature of a Senatorial oligarchy," or call him the " synthetic automaton of a few reactionary political doctors who met secretly in a room in the Blackstone Hotel in 1920," public prejudice and the mob's love of sensational and derogatory slander is kindled into a livid and cynical flame...
...official facts, to be past and gone. The mistakes and seriocomic muddles are official mistakes and muddles alone. That they spring from a law whose application has been made too rigid and impersonal there can be no doubt. After all, the immigrant is not a chattel nor an automaton; he is a human being, and as such must have his own special problems and conditions...
When the referee blows the final whistle of the contest in the Stadium this afternoon the little red-sweatered automaton whose frantic motions and resounding voice have became familiar to a generation of football followers will have completed his thirteenth successive season as score-keeper. "Eddie" Morris is his name, and in his time he has signalled to the score-board the story of every University game played in the Stadium. In the course of the last two decades he has communicated to the spectators, the telegraphers, and the press reporters on the roof of the Stadium the details...