Word: alien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks "on the BBC. Lewis, whose |s prose comes clad in the crisp white linen of logic, starts from mankind's inherent sense of right and wrong. Think about this, Lewis says: men feel wet when they fall into water; fish do not. If men feel "wet"-alien-in a world where evil abounds, he reasons, an unseen kingdom of Tightness must exist, and that means God. From there Lewis proceeds to explain evil via the Fall of Man and to offer Christ as the solution. In one passage Lewis rejects the "foolish" idea that Jesus was just...
...CLOSE ENCOUNTER of the third kind--direct contact with an alien, Well, not exactly, but Immanuel Velikovksy's idea of a cataclysmic history of the planets forms about as otherworldly a scientific hypothesis as was ever aired at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Still, it was an AAAS invitation that brought Velikovsky into its midst on February 25, 1974, although the AAAS's goal was to dispute his challenge to the conventional view of science...
...post-fight party in Atlanta, at which all of the guests were figures from Harlem's underworld. Its perpetrators were executed one by one, a justice meted out not by police but by the robbers' underworld victims. The real world intrudes relentlessly in this tale, a real world alien to Paper Lion...
...lower wages than Americans. They are Mexico's discontented: young, ambitious and frustrated. And many of them are crossing the unseen line, undeterred by rivers, mountains, deserts, men, guns or electronic detection devices. Often they arrive to find they are viewed with hostile eyes by Americans and called illegal, alien unwanted. The brown immigrant, like the Eastern European immigrant of an earlier era, provides an easy scapegoat for those frustrated with the high levels of unemployment and human suffering in our own country...
...treasure to the colonialists. Africa had all the natural resources the colonialists needed--gold, iron ore, bauzite, diamonds, oil and many others; Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal all needed a place in the sun, hence the partition of Africa. They created the worst frontiers or boundaries in Africa. Alien governments were established. The French sought to make the African and Frenchman by establishing a policy of assimilation and comprimise. The British whose only motive was that of exploitation introduced foreign companies that established monopolies. Slavery became a lucrative enterprise. Behind the facade of colonialism was the Christian religion...