Word: conquerer
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...what there is to conquer... has already been...
...plots, making them not only suspenseful but enjoyable. It is a rare accomplishment indeed to shine in this medium, but Conrad seems to be playing himself. As he overcomes stupidity on the program, one feels that it is a direct metaphor for his consistent battle to conquer the reigning tunnel vision of television production. Channel...
There are, however, somewhat discomforting jabs at allegory and significance. Marvin is the soiled knight striving after honor, Borgnine the dark primitive force he must conquer. Aldrich's idea of making his stereotypes into mythic archetypes is to pump them up with hot air. When Borgnine and Marvin finally lock in combat they seem less likely to wreak havoc than to simply deflate each other...
...medical world. A committee from the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine has criticized the plan for leaving the impression that "all shots can be called from a central headquarters." It has also taken issue with the assumption that most of the knowledge needed to conquer cancer is already in hand. Says the committee: "It seems to us a defect of the N.C.P. that the enormity of our ignorance receives less emphasis than it merits...
...science that also made possible such horrors as the exploding mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the chemically ruined forests of Indochina, the threat of a shower of ICBMs, a plant increasingly littered with technology's fallout. It is this Faustian side of science, with its insatiable drive to conquer new fields, explore new territory and build bigger machines, regardless of costs or consequences that worries so many critics...