Word: robotized
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...weapon turned out to be just about what British military and Government leaders had predicted months before-a self-propelled "robot bomb." It has stubby wings (16 ft. across) and tiny tail surface; its only pilot is a gyrocompass control box, intended to keep it on a steady course...
...telephone is growing up fast. It can now talk (a robot voice tells callers the time and weather). It acts as if it could think (when dialed on local calls). And last week in Philadelphia it was acting even more so. In operation was a new Bell Telephone Laboratories mechanical brain which enables the instrument to put through long distance calls without human assistance...
...takes out of a box two tiny human figures -Mr. Ema (Education for the Masses) and Miss Ame (Ministress for Amenities). They deliver pretty speeches about classless education and beautiful laborsaving apartments for all. This meeting slightly lifts the Young Soldier's spirits. He hurries past a gesticulating Robot mechanically expounding Marxism and predicting Capitalism's postwar collapse...
...year-old Jack Jenkins. When he startles a bearded scholar in the town library by suddenly poking his freckled, wistful face before the man's eyes, the film sings. Best scene is the one in which he learns the meaning of "I'm afraid." A human advertising robot in a drugstore window does it. The robot glares at Ulysses and the boy runs screaming down the street...
...lyric talent can brilliantly suggest even very subtle ones: Ulysses waving to a singing Negro on a passing freight; or handing his mother an egg as importantly as if it were the Eucharist; or, with a half-witted friend, scanning the books in the Public Library; or, before a robot in a shopwindow, first realizing death...