Word: emotionlessness
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Professor Giedion is not the sort of crank who advocates a return to 100% manual labor. But he believes that if man cannot protect himself from the emotionless "collectivism" of the machine, "future generations will perhaps designate this period as one of mechanized barbarism, the most repulsive barbarism...
...Shewell Franks, 43, a philosopher-turned-economist who was born in the year that Inverchapel first headed into the foreign service. No conventional diplomat, Sir Oliver is one of the little group of keen-minded young Oxford dons who rocketed to prominence in wartime government service. He is an emotionless factfinder who has been described as the most unneurotic man in Britain...
...hefty .320. After managing Detroit for 4½ seasons (and spoiling his health and cheery disposition), he forsook baseball in 1938, is now working for a rubber company in Montana. ¶ Carl ("Meal Ticket") Hubbell, 43, the great "clutch" pitcher (he always won in a pinch). Lean and emotionless, he seldom used more stuff than he needed to get his man, seldom tried for strike-out records. In 16 seasons with the New York Giants, he won 253 games. His World Series record: W. 4, L. 2. His present job: director of the Giants' farm system...
When a Jap midget submarine fired two torpedoes at the ship, and was rammed by a U.S. destroyer, MacArthur watched with emotionless interest. His calm under air attack, first noted in Manila and Corregidor, was again displayed...
There's no doubt about it, Harry James has put the trumpet back 30 years. Not for nothing did Louis Armstrong show musicians what could be done with a trumpet. Instead of a blaring, brassy, emotionless instrument, Louis made it a warm, passionate voice. James can still play a hot horn; he turns out an occasional good chorus. But he has added fiddles, written his own lush and senseless orchestrations, and become the number one band of the nation. Well, buy Harry's new record of "I Cried For You" and dance to it, but you won't enjoy listening...