Word: emotionlessness
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...prisoner's dock in Paris' ancient Palais de Justice last week stood a pale, emotionless young Algerian named Mohammed ben Sadok, on trial for his life. Before the case got to judgment, France learned once again that the political assassin often carries his prosecutor with him before the bar of justice...
Miss Bingham's "Miss Thrush at Home" is a clear-cut, black and white depiction of character in the first person narrative of a hard, emotionless, bedridden old maid describing the end of a young woman's engagement. It gets to the point immediately, beginning with: "I am an old woman. I do not pretend to be anything else," and continues to the end hammering this fact home with relentless determination. Nowhere does Miss Thursh behave inconsistently, i.e., like a nice, ordinary human being. She keeps a card catalog on the emotional lives of the neighbors as her kind, simple...
...Immoralist is an impressively honest study, at once understanding and detached. It chronicles the numbed suffering of a life-defrauded woman; the guilty sinning of a basically moral man. But both the negatively rather than affirmatively tragic nature of the tale and the forthright yet emotionless nature of the telling are somewhat at odds with the genius of the theater. There is a little the air of a case history, yet without quite enough documentation, let alone drama. The play is accurate and revealing, but only in the way a blueprint is. Gide's novel, though not very creative...
Studio One did not flinch at an unhappy ending. Smith groveled in a prison pit, was tortured into admitting that two and two make five, came screaming out of a chamber of hungry rats, and confirmed his fealty to Big Brother in an emotionless, post-brainwashing meeting with Julia. It was a production that could easily have gone embarrassingly grotesque at one false move, but maturity of view and painstaking execution (stagehands were fitted with felt shoe pads to keep out distracting noises) combined to make the first tele-version of Nineteen Eighty-Four a major TV achievement...
Reverse Effects. Several of the tests were to find out how an emotionless stomach behaves with certain drugs. This is important, because normal patients often have such strong emotions that they can reverse a drug's natural action (e.g., sleeping pills may keep a man awake if he firmly believes that he is getting a stimulant). Atropine has been a puzzle, because in theory it should cut down stomach activity, but in practice small doses sometimes do the opposite. Doctors had thought, but could not prove, that this was due to emotional factors. The Louisiana farmhand provided the proof...