Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found myself in a world I knew nothing about," Potok said of his first encounter with an alien Anglo-culture in the novels of Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce...
Instead of reflecting reality, the preoccupation with outer space stems from a tendency to project our troubles onto asteroids and little green men. For example, most psychologists believe that victims of so-called alien abduction are subconsciously expressing their innermost fears and desires...
...part that dreams about outer space, that as child turned my playroom into the bridge of a spaceship. In third grade, I even wrote a short science-fiction story about an astronaut who is sent to the far ends of the galaxy to investigate a mysterious alien message...
...completed its Grand Tour of the planets and was speeding out into deep space on its way to the stars. But the temptation of one last backward look was irresistible. Swinging its camera around, it took snapshots of the now distant planets as they might appear to an alien craft approaching the solar system...
...official: astronomers finally have irrefutable evidence of a solar system beyond our own. But fans of alien life can't celebrate yet: the three confirmed planets are orbiting the dim remnant of a star that exploded long...