Word: automatons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think something profoundly significant lies in the testimony of Benjamin Davis, one of the eleven Communists on trial in Manhattan, as reported in "Man & Automaton" [TIME, July...
...next year Davis joined the party, moved to New York City and began rising in the party hierarchy. Along the way he learned the tricks of the Communist game. Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old harassing tactics-trying to slip irrelevant evidence into the record, denouncing a ticklish question as "Hitlerian distortion," flouting the rules to the point where Judge Harold Medina threatened to lock him up for contempt as he had already locked up four of Davis' fellow defendants...
...superstition is only one phase of the nature which keeps his precision plus a 13-hour work day from turning him into an automaton. His sense of humor also helps. When a fan asked him after the Princeton game if Harvard had lost because it had not spent enough time on defense, he answered, "What do you mean? We spent all Saturday afternoon on defense...
...there' and 'their' mixed up for the one-millionth time. . . . The most interesting thing about teaching is not what-you already know, but how much you learn and need to learn. A teacher who 'knew it all' would be nothing but a sad automaton, but I've never met one. Most of us don't know very much, but we keep on trying because the children insist...
Penn didn't look as big as its press releases when it jogged out on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon for a final practice, but a glance at its perfectly conditioned, automaton-like maneuvers convinced any observer that the Quakers were out for blood...