Word: inquisitors
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...neighbor in a crowded pub and suddenly pop such questions as these might seem eccentric behavior, but in Britain these days it is not only acceptable but fashionable. The neighbor will probably try for the answers, and he may also in turn demand that his inquisitor "complete the following by filling...
...turning men into robots [TIME, Oct. 15]-as expounded by Engineer Curtiss Schafer is the most chilling scientific vision in many a year. For man to be enslaved by electrical processes, his spirit and genius and upward thrust mechanically coerced and molded to the will of a malignant Grand Inquisitor-this is the final madness...
...these scenes are quite funny--especially in Lisbon just before the earthquake where junkmen, winesellers, and Arab conjurers litter the stage. A bear frolics--chased by his bearman--and the wild infant Casmira screams, "The earth will quake and the ground will shake," to which the Very, Very Old Inquisitor grunts toward the Very Old Inquisitor, "The danger has passed." Just then the stage begins to rumble. As the play wears on, however, these scenes become repetitions and progressively less funny. Toward the end, Candide wearily remarks, "You cannot live by bed alone...
...fine precision, although a little too often. Miss Moses was nervous in the opening act last night, but is otherwise adequate. Her secret attraction is the drumboy, Bob Stern, who sings with a strong melodic voice. The old fellow who gives everyone trouble is William Cowperthwaite, the Grand Inquisitor, who performs his duty with solemn face and extended arms...
...permitted to be erected around him." In a special sense, this is what the honored, respectably liberal Goethe did when he committed his rebelliousness to paper. But man in the mass, who does not have such comfortable literary outlets, can "become transformed into storm trooper, Blackshirt, NKVD inquisitor, guard on the long march from Corregidor, or burner of the fiery cross...