Word: homunculus
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...what of the inner man? The inner man, says Skinner, the homunculus or spirit is like freedom and dignity, an illusion. It no more exists than angels, devils, and things that go bump in the night, but is simply and device to allow man to adjust his behavior to fit the demands of the culture in which he lives. Skinner's technology of behavior would not destroy the inner man, who never existed in the first place. And what if those who administer the controls in this technology use their power unwisely? Then, says Skinner, those whom they control will...
...scrupulously avoids the fallen archness common among animal books. Service is fascinated by Owl as owl, not homunculus, and comes forth with a number of unexpected facts about the species. Owls' eyes, for example, do not move in their sockets. And Owl, Service found, could not see his own feet, or focus on anything closer than eight or ten inches away. For all Service could tell, owls may even see double all the time. Yet in the dimmest light Owl could spot a small moth 20 feet away-if it moved, and provided he was hungry...
Killer Joe should know. A lithe, electric homunculus, he is Diskville's No. 1 dancing master, a hierophant of the subtle shades of difference between the Chicken and the Bird, the Surf and the Fish and the Swim, who has welcomed many a Big Name (Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, Hoofer Ray Bolger, Sybil Burton) to his unpretentious walk-up studio in Manhattan and makes about 30 trips a year to cities around the country to show dancing teachers how it's done...
...many of them, mere paint and canvas are not enough: a novel end can apparently justify any means. Manolo Millares, 34, dips burlap into white paint, bunches and tears it, smears and daubs it with black. If he ends up with something vaguely resembling a figure, he calls it Homunculus, and some of his homunculi look rather like decayed and mangled ghosts. Antoni Tapies, 36, who abandoned the University of Barcelona law school to take up painting in 1946, heaps his canvases with paint, then gouges, cuts and scrapes. His Three Stains on Grey Space is exactly what it says...
Overnight, Herbert Hoover was turned into a scapegoat for the economic sins of a whole generation. Charles Michelson, the Democrats' razor-tongued publicity genius, pilloried him before millions as a hapless homunculus responsible for all the nation's ills. Disgruntled citizens called the dear departed boom the Hoover boom. The depression, Democrats jeered, was the Hoover depression. The huddled shanties near the railroad tracks, where ragged men cooked garbage over old oil drums, were called Hoovervilles...