Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially music that induces trancelike states. The mild hysteria underlying each of these courses seems born and bred at Disneyland. In the new Academic environment, the experience is given a new theoretical and often satirical thrust, but there still remains the intrinsic fascination of the possibility of technology to alter states of consciousness, or in the words of Walt Disney, "to make people feel they're in another world." The imagineers of Disneyland, of course, never say what they mean to do with all their rides, gimmicks, and audio-animatronical robots, but C.I.A. knows...
...sank. Crew members commandeered all but one of the lifeboats, and most of the 233 passengers, including the owner's wife and two children, drowned. Two years later the Collins Line's Pacific steamed into an ice field and disappeared without a trace. But nothing could alter the drive for more speed. A captain of the day expressed the view that the way to deal with fog was to steam as fast as possible, thus getting "sooner...
LOVE IN THE RUINS, by Walker Percy. In a blending of science fiction and theology, the author of The Moviegoer fondly satirizes man's attempts to alter his fate...
...case, a cease-fire is not now likely to alter the military situation in the East. As Indian infantrymen advanced to within 25 miles of Dacca late last week and as reports circulated that 5,000 Indian paratroopers were landing on the edges of the beleaguered eastern capital, thousands fled for fear that the Pakistani army might decide to make a pitched stand. Daily, and often hourly, Indian planes strafed airports in Dacca, Karachi and Islamabad. Some 300 children were said to have died in a Dacca orphanage when a piston-engine plane dropped three 750-lb. bombs...
...steel that many Americans grew up with is not what he used to be. For one thing, his alter ego, Clark Kent, has given up the Daily Planet to become a newscaster for the Galaxy Broadcasting System, getting in and out of blue tights and red cape during commercial breaks. ("Personally, I still prefer Walter Cronkite," a mini-skirted Lois tells him. She, at least, is unchanged-as obnoxious as ever.) For another, Superman has succumbed to urban jitters; he obviously needs to spend some time on the couch. Just listen to some of his recent complaints...