Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frankenstein of Fascismo which Premier Mussolini raised in Italy put him into power, but it now threatens to destroy him because he cannot control it. Beginning last July with the assassination of Matteoti, the Socialist deputy, there has been a sucqession of disturbances which culminated in the Italian Armistice Day riot. The grandson of the great Garibaldi has even challenged Mussolini to a duel but has not been answered...
Especially in recent years it has become the fashion for everyone except, in most cases, the scientists, to regard Science, with a large S--as a kind of Juggernaut or Frankenstein before whose blind onrush mankind is inevitably doomed to destruction. What were once considered triumphs of mind over matter have become victories of the machine over man, horribly portrayed in Vanity Fair woodcuts and the magazine supplements of Sunday newspapers. And the ever increasing momentum of scientific progress has startled philosophers out of pleasant and meaningless speculation into the discovery that even the thin air out of which they...
...longer a game, it is no longer even a dangerous game in which strength and skill of individuals, of staffs, even of armies can prevail. It is scientific destruction. The Frankenstein created by man is triumphant, and man must kill it. When strong men rode out to meet strong men, face to face and sword against sword, war was little more to be condemned that a football game. It was Olympian strife...
Instances like this of the cable-coil call up the vision of a new Frankenstein. The terror of the men on board the ship, helpless before the caprices of the huge drum, can be readily imagined even by those who have not read "Quatre-vingt-treize". The picture of man cowering before the creations of his own hand, which have grown beyond his control and turn to "plague the inventor," is a favorite spectra with a certain school of philosophers, and with alarmists in general. "R. U. R.", on the New York stage, is a fanciful prophecy of what...
...Cleveland campaign reacted against the British ambassador to such an extent that Cleveland was elected to the slogan: "No North, no South, no East, no Cornwallis-West!" Propaganda, a very vague term, is quickly laid at the door of the foreign envoy, and public opinion like a Frankenstein turns without warning upon anyone who has tried to direct...