Word: capek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Makropoulos Secret (by Karel Capek) is a kind of philosophic mystery story-by the author of R.U.R.-first produced in the '20s. It is the kind of phililosophic mystery story that Director Tyrone Guthrie, with his instinct for theater and his itch for new slants, would clearly have enjoyed remodeling. The Guthrie treatment did not mean giving the play a more modern look or a different philosophic spin. It meant reverting to a 19th century mode of acting and a Continental air of high twaddle-one moment for their value as drama, another for what is the outlines...
...Monkey Wife, first published in 1930, Collier wrote an improper parable to indicate his preferences and, incidentally, to pull man's leg. It has since become a minor classic in his own special fiction-fantasy style, and belongs on the same shelf as Swift's Houyhnhnms, Karel Capek's newts, and with all those who like to move to the other side of the zoo bars the better to observe mankind. Its reissue now is a lively event in a dull publishing season...
When Karel Capek wrote these words in his 1920 play R.U.R., such a dream of effortless productivity seemed fantastic indeed. But this week, when Massachusetts Institute of Technology explained the operations of the first completely automatized milling machine, the idea no longer seemed quite so farfetched. Ranged beside the big milling machine, which looked like any other, were three formidable-looking banks of electronic devices, each of which decoded the "messages" punched out on a tape similar to teletype. When M.I.T.'s Associate Professor William Pease fed the tape into a transmitter, the huge machine swung into action, cutting...
...years, Lidove Noviny (People's News) was Czechoslovakia's best newspaper, often favorably compared with the New York Times. Politically independent, the paper built up a large staff of foreign correspondents and a list of notable contributors (Thomas Mann, Winston Churchill, Karel Capek, Leon Blum). At the peak of its influence in the '20s and '30s, the Lidove Noviny had a circulation of 80,000 and always made money...
Professor Wiener, like Capek, has thought and written about the influence of the machine on society. In his prologue, Wiener pointed out that Capek was mistaken in postulating a society based on universal robots, that we were leaning more to specialized machines that faithfully perform specific tasks...