Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...1920s, a kid with 25? and any sort of buyer's instinct at all could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
Although he once rebelled at western costumes, he now-in keeping with his mission-wears a ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots at all times. He is also convinced that his public does not consider him an actor, but simply a friend-a sort^ of ^benign but colorful uncle whom it instinctively wants to invite for dinner...
...white-collar help. In ten years, he estimated, some 7,500,000 workers will be replaced by the intelligent machines. A national emergency could speed up the process greatly. Both management and government, said Gulick, will have to look sharp, lest a too-quick development of this sort leave a large part of the U.S. population without support or function...
...sort of modern Everyman, Randall has Everyman's troubles with Nobody's ability to handle them. On page 11 he meets an "older woman" of 26 on a London tram. Only 20, and at his author's mercy, "Randall saw the full lips and not the weak chin," and so they were married. "Her hot shallow passion . . . roused convulsive feelings in Randall . . . The deep wells within him gushed with tenderness . . . And then peace descended on them both . . . like night coming down upon a tropical sunset"-in a London hotel...
Dazzled by such sexual scenery and frazzled by hard work (on a machine he has invented to help canners sort the wrinkled peas from the smooth), Randall does not realize that somebody else is watching the sunsets when he's not around. When at last he catches the poacher on his preserve, Randall gives him the heave and the plot a twist that will require some sequels to unwind...