...Clarence A. Manning Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 KAREL CAPEK CLARENCE A. MANNING IN THE DEATH o£ Karel Capek two years ago at the early age of forty-eight, the Czechs lost their outstanding man of letters. His plays, especially R. U. R., have been produced successfully...

... The South Atlantic Quarterly robot world of Karel Capek, in which mankind succumbs before Rossum s universal robots, first created to serve it. In this, as in other respects, Utopias and anti-Utopias reflect the great debate of our time how to reconcile direction with freedom, free enterprise with a planned...

... the months. By April, 1868, Marx wrote that he would be fifty years old in a few days. With the weight of a half century on his back he was still a pauper. How right his mother had been when she stated that, if Karell had made capital instead of writing about it, all would have been different. A fortnight...

... like Ingemar Bergmann, Karel Appel, Pierre Boulez, the Mermaid and Royal Court theaters in London, and the Barrault theater company in France have received state aid. Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, the Comedie Fran$ais, and La Scala could not exist with­ out government funds: perhaps part...

... and Slovakia. As the late Karel Capek wrote only a year ago: [Czechoslovakia is] just one half way between North and South, and be­ tween east and west, just in the middle between the four Seas whose shores outline the complicated contour of Europe. . . . This spot of earth was successively overrun...

... three better, she is in the process of raising four children, alone, with aplomb, and no apparent bad effects to the children. Like Jane, she has been through a failing marriage and a successful love affair. Unlike Jane, she becomes united to Karel, the only man in Europe, in a fairy-tale mar­ riage...

... mannequins that could pour wine, through the clockwork automata of the eighteenth century, to the creepily lifelike audio-animatronic figurines familiar to the millions who have seen a Disney robot drama. The word robot itself was first Cyberculture 515 used, significantly, in Karel Capek s 1921 science...

... of Dreams corroborates Zoë Wicomb’s argument about the post-apartheid melanization of the Afrikaner. Tshepo facilitates that process by becoming involved with West (one of his associates at the escort agency, Steamy Windows), an Afrikaans boy from Somerset West whose actual name is Karel de Villiers...