Word: soullessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, Nixon seemed to play into the bogeyman role. The scenario was all too clear: there was the smiling Nixon at the Republican convention, Strom Thurmond on one side and Spiro Agnew on the other. There was the soulless Nixon, emerging with "official stands" on things like war and racism after consulting the public opinion polls. There was the unified-party Nixon, steam-rolling John Lindsay, Edward Brooke, Ronald Reagen together into one big, happy, featureless group of supporters. And worst of all, there was the Machiavellian Nixon, keenly aware that even though his moves alienated the blacks...
Something Soulless. In Jerusalem he fought cunningly to minimize his role. He did not have the ideological courage to admit what he had once said to his friends in Argentina: that he had taken "uncommon joy" in catching these enemies and transporting them to their destination. "I lived in this stuff, otherwise I would have remained only an assistant, a cog, something soulless." Now he disclaimed responsibility, insisted that he had indeed been a cog, merely transmitting orders. But the evidence was crushing that he had acted, as witnesses put it, as "the great forwarding agent of death," the efficient...
What's more, II Bidone is clearly the first fumbling version of Fellini's masterpiece-8%. As in 8%, the hero is a man divided against himself: a brilliant but soulless showman inhabited/inhibited by an amiable but infantile idealist...
...that established him as the Confucius of collectivism. By contrast with the vast majority of China's peasants, whose reluctance to be herded into agricultural communes in 1958 has been largely responsible for the nation's persistent food shortages, Lei Feng actually waxed lyrical over such selfless, soulless "service to the people." Said he: "One's role in the revolutionary cause is just like a screw in the machine. A man has his greatest strength only when he is merged with the collective...
...Mind Benders. "PERVERTED! SOULLESS! A LOVE AFFAIR DESTROYED BY AN EXPERIMENT SO TERRIFYING IT DEFIES HUMANITY!" Sound bloody awful? It is. And that's a shame, because it needn't have been. The plot of this British thriller has a built-in beaut of a scientific gimmick: a visual recapitulation of some eerie experiments in "sensory deprivation" conducted recently in Britain and the U.S. Object of the experiments: to find out what happens to people who for long periods forgo the use of their senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, weight and direction...