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The Obsolete Man: Romney is a God-fearing librarian in a future state in which books and religion have been banned.
It introduced Burgess Meredith to the series; he went on to star in three more episodes, being introduced as "no stranger to The Twilight Zone" in promotional spots for season two's "The Obsolete Man".
"The Obsolete Man" takes the episode's literary subtext — the notion that reading may eventually be considered "obsolete" — to an extreme: The state has declared books obsolete and a librarian (also played by Meredith) finds himself on trial for his own obsolescence.
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It was not hard for Mr. Singh to convince Parliament and the people of India that the country had no choice but to initiate far-reaching economic reforms, to privatize, to liberate itself from socialism and the philosophies of obsolete men.
As Fuller once put it, "Either war is obsolete or men are".
Such labels are obsolete when men are at play under the international laws of the game.
To an overwhelming majority, a marriage is obsolete if a man of God is not present to mark it.
I imagined living on a suspended pod of earth hovering between the bridge and the bay, between the obsolete product of man and the bewitching, looming threat of the sea.
To counter the rapid expansion of the German navy, he reinforced the British naval forces in home waters and, by scrapping obsolete ships, released men to provide the nucleus of crews for ships in reserve.
Along the way, he invoked funny and revealing examples that included everything from obsolete ice-delivery men to beach sandals that open beer bottles.
They lull you into a mechanical fantasia where man is obsolete and machines rule.
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