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...have made him, but that's Mayer's doing. Weil makes an intriguing connection between this and spiritual impotence. Particularly in his "'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-caliban" song when Caliban stretches his lungs and brain to their breaking point and makes nothing but noise, he expresses the limits of his subhuman character...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: The Tempest | 11/13/1965 | See Source »

...required so many new skills that the total unemployment level has hardly changed. In many cases, the computer has not meant an overall loss of jobs so much as a change in the type of jobs done. Says Sir Leon Bagrit: "Mechanization has sometimes given millions of people subhuman work to do. Automation does the exact opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Cybernated Generation | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...came to Cambridge Thursday night--jerked along by some furry friends. Of course, the milling crowd can't really complain; instead of heading home had another hour or two of entertainment. And of course generations of wayward students were vindicated. Cops it seems are indeed subhuman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question For Our Time | 5/11/1964 | See Source »

Amid pantings and groanings and the passage of "vast tracts of time," a nameless subhuman progresses on hands and knees across a sea of mud at a fixed rate of 40 yards a year. He is teased by quavery memories of a nightmare picnic and a life with a woman somewhere "above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to Godot | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...Subhuman Treatment. Concierges have had a few defenders. Frédéric-Dupont, a former independent Deputy for Paris, argued so eloquently for a bill freeing concierges from the cordon that when he rose to speak other Deputies would shout the traditional cry: "Cordon, s'il vous plaít!" His bill was passed in 1957, and most doors are now opened by an electrical release in the tenant's own apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: But Who Will Be Concierge to the Concierges? | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

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