Word: robotized
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...nether world of toys this year succeeds in making monsters more monstrous and expendable than ever before. The Great Garloo (Marx) is a sort of teen-age monster who picks things up and carries things around under remote control. Ideal's Robot Commando will fire rockets by voice command. War toys, too, are more realistic than ever. There are aircraft carriers that catapult planes from their decks, tanks that advance relentlessly until a well-aimed stone hits a vulnerable spot. One Civil War set comes with a firing mortar, exploding bunker and battle sound-effects record...
Having become discouraged with the state of affairs in the Western World, bewildered with anxiety for its future, novelist Arthur Koestler decided to set forth on a "spiritual pilgrimage" to the East, hoping to find some solution to the world's problems. The Lotus and the Robot is the result of that journey...
...Koestler is immediately impressed by the beauty of the Japanese islands, but he is also troubled by the Western modernization of that country. It is this combination of the ancient--the Lotus--and the modern--the Robot--which gave Mr. Koestler the title for his book. He apparently decided that the latter was the more dominant of the two forces, and expresses grave misgivings about the psychological instability which the Robot has forced upon the Japanese people. After surmising that the Japanese are not capable of coping with their own spiritual and philosophical problems, Mr. Koestler very neatly dismisses another...
Fortunately, The Lotus and the Robot contains some reasonably descriptive accounts of the impoverished conditions of urban and rural India, and a few interesting observations on the country's Hindu saints. As a contribution to philosophy, it is dubious...
...space program, Project Mercury, scored its greatest triumph last week, when with infinite precision, the robot-manned Mercury capsule MA4 was boosted into orbit, permitted to circle the earth, then brought down and recovered in good condition. Despite all the excitement stirred up by the short, sub-orbital flights of Astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom, last week's achievement was far more significant...