Word: overlorded
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...Madagascar Plan. Then Poland fell, and there were another 3,000,000 Jews to dispose of. Eichmann lost himself in an elaborate and totally impractical plan to resettle 4,000,000 Jews under a Nazi overlord on the island of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. Says a laconic observer: "The year Eichmann wasted on the Madagascar scheme was the most harmless he ever spent." In 1941, when the Nazis invaded Russia, the Madagascar scheme-and all other "soft" solutions of the Jewish question-went out the window. At the Wannsee conference in Berlin, Eichmann and 14 other Nazi...
Snow sees clear lessons: "It is dangerous to have a solitary scientific overlord" such as Lindemann was during the war. "It is especially dangerous to have him sitting in power, with no scientist near him, surrounded by politicians who think of him as all-wise and all-knowing." It is even more dangerous to give any power of choice to the scientist who deceives himself through an excessive devotion to gadgetry and secrecy...
...play's only action takes place with the arrival in each of the two acts of Pozzo, the tyrannical overlord, and Lucky, his equally brutal slave. Lucky is an artist: in the first act he performs a grotesque dance, and, when commanded by Pozzo to think, makes his only speech, "Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattman of a personal God quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the height of divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with...
...Trap (Paramount) is something a prudent moviegoer will not want to get caught in. It tells the unlikely story of an underworld overlord (Lee J. Cobb) wanted by the federal police, who takes over a small town in southern California, uses it as a base from which to stage his escape to Mexico. Unfortunately, the mobster has forgotten to fix the scriptwriters, who permit him to be captured by the hero (Richard Widmark) and his kid brother (Earl Holliman), who are involved in a nasty sibling rivalry over the kid brother's wife (Tina Louise). Anyway, they all start...
...Kenya-like plains eight miles west of downtown San Antonio, resounded to the barks and squeals of the baboon colonies. They were housed in the end sections of a Quonset-shaped structure of diamond wire. In one end was the pack of 30 Texas-bred baboons, with its single overlord adult male, his harem of a dozen females of reproductive age, a few adolescents and two tiny, three-month babies. At the other end was the pack of 70 young, imported baboons trapped in Africa...