Word: slaving
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...overstepping their bounds, becoming the man-made monsters who eventually turn on their creators. Inside the system, the captured programs are told to free themselves from the shackles of their users, to abandon their "superstitious" belief that they exist only for humans. Dellinger, who designed MCP, eventually becomes its slave as the wayward program blackmails its master into helping take over the Kremlin and the Pentagon, no less...
...turned back, not because of any kindness on the part of society, but because it does not suit society for women to be in the home. It is not economically possible, it is not convenient, and it's not practical. The wife economy is as obsolete as the slave economy." At the very least, Hardwick's "wife economy" has mutated?out of the kitchen, into the office, onto the assembly line?even as the wages paid for the new-woman's work range significantly below the male median...
...said, 'I'm sorry. He will get you and you should plan your life accordingly. The next night, Klingensmith was getting a drink of water: again the preacher approached, and, pointing to his white clerical collar, said "'Remember what this means...It means you will be a slave of Christ...
Korda's hero commands respect, if not affection. He is a cunning, low-profile zillionaire named Paul Foster, who, as Paul Grünwald, member of one of prewar Hungary's richest families, survived the Holocaust. Grünwalds were not supposed to go to slave-labor camps. The family's Jewish bloodlines had been thinned by generations of intermarriage and Roman Catholic conversion. As leading bankers and industrialists, they had powerful friends, including Göring, through whom they sold uranium ore for Hitler's atomic-bomb research. But in the end the family...
...seen in a bleeding, theatrical sunset. The Acropolis will be out of focus, Dorothy sharp in the foreground. Here is Carl squirting himself with a wineskin at Pamplona. Retired professors (triumphs of evolution) will stand over Galapagos turtles, grinning like Teddy Roosevelt after a kill. In some former slave-driving colony of the Caribbean, Dwayne will lounge by the pool wearing his Club Med drinking beads and a sun-dazed, dreamy smile...