Word: brainwashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borowitz brilliantly parodies Freudian psychology in the scene in which Sedgwick tries to brainwash Superman. Sedgwick accuses Superman of being "rejected as a child" and of craving "the adulation of millions." "Who told you we needed a Superman?" he barks at the cowed and cringing extra-terrestrial. He convinces Superman that normal people drive cars, rather than...
...sources discount rumors that the Greek government will nationalize the Onassis holdings to forestall a Soviet takeover, but they are nonetheless worried about what the Russians might do. "They are sure that one day the romance will be over, and what then?" says a family friend. "Will the Soviets brainwash Christina or somehow confiscate her property? They are afraid the Soviets will swallow...
After reading Patty's affidavit, other experts are skeptical about her account. Chalmers Johnson, a University of California political scientist who has studied brainwashing, doubts that Patty was ever as strongly influenced as she claims. "She may have been driven into hysteria and even into a catatonic state after her kidnaping," Johnson says, "but she was not brainwashed. No one can persuade me that Cinque [S.L.A. Chief Donald DeFreeze] was bright or skillful enough to brainwash anyone...
...note written in Kennedy's hand during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis Kennedy asked, "Is there a plan to brief and brainwash key press within 12 hours...
...Union of American Physicians does not oppose an honest review of the quality of our work by those trained to evaluate it. We do object to the PSRO law because it is merely a device to hide cost control behind the illusion of quality control. It is designed to brainwash the public into accepting bargain-basement medicine...