Word: monstering
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Inevitably, little Norbert turned out to be something of an infantile monster. Once, when a Latin tutor annoyed him, he turned the garden hose on the fellow. Another time, when his parents sent him to a Unitarian Sunday school to give him some contact with other children, little Atheist Norbert got into debates with the minister on the existence...
Robot & Time Travel. But for all the innovations, the show has the same star it had on opening night: a giant, two-headed robot studded with shining eyes. On bowed, ladder-like legs, the monster crouches beneath the planetarium's high-arched dome. When the house lights dim in the circular planetarium room, the monster's bright eyes show as points of light reflected from the curved steel ceiling. There, astonishingly real, stretches a boundless universe-a vivid replica of the starbright sky on a clear night...
...complicated control panel, a lecturer flips switches and makes the monster act. As it turns around an axis parallel to a line between the earth's poles, its projected stars move through the artificial heaven just as the earth's rotation seems to move the real stars overhead. When the monster swings about another axis (perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic), the north pole of the sky seems to move in a circle-the same circle that it makes every 26,000 years. Thus, the lecturer can move the stars through time: turn them back...
...look with fear upon this news from the Midwest. It is not enough for television to change mealtimes, stific conversation, and make exercise obsolete. It threatens the superiority of nature over her own processes. If the good burghers of Toledo see fit to smash every flickering monster they find, we would not mind. For the relentless march of the TV sets must be stopped, lest our most cherished rights of personal choice fall before...
...Domestic Transmitter Division, told of a white-elephant recording truck that had cost $65,000 to build. On its maiden field trip two years ago, it proved so defective that "about $25,000 or $30,000" more was spent for alterations. After a few more expeditions, the monster was confined to a garage, where it now gathers dust...