Word: automatons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...heyday of abstract expressionism, Aronson's figurative works lost their audience Meanwhile he delved into the occult Cabalistic thought of the late-medieval European Jews, who saw nature as a deceptive cloak thrown over man's divine essence. Aronson's new subjects included the golem, or automaton, brought to life by magic and capable of either good or evil. Another was the dybbuk, a wicked spirit that can only be exorcised (usually through the small toe) by a wonder-working rabbi...
...enemy country. The film's overall indictment is of the penal system as a profoundly damning instrument of society. Bird Man of Alcatraz argues forcefully and with eloquence that the destruction of individual dignity, the reduction of a human soul to a numbered automaton, is as great a crime as any for which men are jailed...
Towards the end of each meal in the evening the veilleur de nuit drops in for his bit of cheer.... He is a nobody. He carries a lantern and a bunch of keys. He makes the rounds through the night, stiff as an automaton... In the scheme of things he's not worth the brine to pickle a herring. He's just a piece of live manure and he knows it. When he looks around after his drink and smiles at us, the world seems to be falling to pieces. It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole...