Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero without a show, introducing cartoons and kiddies' space films. But since last August he has been without a regular TV job. He is a victim of TV's power to create a fictive personality that neither make-believe limbo nor enduring flesh can destroy, a historic character of TV folklore uncomfortably survived by himself. Hodge has tried in vain to get dramatic parts and commercial assignments. No director will hire him, arguing that every TV viewer instantly identifies him as the captain. (Standard greeting: "Hello there, Video, what can we do for you?") His only...
...Pope also condemned the use of lie detectors. Explained a Vatican official: "The lie detector is always illicit, even with the consent of the subject. Just as a man may not consent to euthanasia because religious law forbids him from doing away with himself, so he may not destroy his own freedom to answer or not according to his own judgment. Those who ask for a lie-detector test in order to prove they are speaking the truth must find other means of convincing inquirers. Otherwise, the point will come when anyone who refuses a lie-detector test will automatically...
...biggest problem of all is whether the universe contains large quantities of antimatter. Since the two kinds of matter destroy each other in microseconds, there is no antimatter on earth, and probably none in the local Milky Way galaxy, but Segrè is not so sure about the distant galaxies scattered through space. They are so far apart that they would not normally bother each other, even if made of opposite kinds of matter...
...happened last month, even when the number of employed takes a big jump. Economists would like the Census Bureau to add more questions to separate the laid-off worker from the new job seeker. But so far the Census Bureau has said no; it fears any change will destroy the month-by-month continuity of its figures...
...heat that is his peculiar intellectual climate. If there is one central virtue in his art it is that his creatures have the capacity to explain themselves: the central defect is that they have the compulsion to explain themselves away. Huxley rarely creates a character that he does not destroy...