Word: brainwashing
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...deal with the effects of Russia’s communist history on its people. Because of their experiences, after the Soviet Union fell, a lot of people wouldn’t listen to the missionaries because “they thought you were just trying to brainwash them,” Langford said...
...says, $A5,000 on legal fees trying to win the right to visit the kids - if only to make sure they're okay - but ran out of money and couldn't pursue the claim. The children's father is also excluded. "The problem is that the custodial parent can brainwash the children," says Sue, "tell them things that the little children believe. So the boy doesn't even want to see his father now, and I can promise you that this man is a very sweet and gentle soul...
...niece who attends my old elementary school in Texas. Much to her rambling pleasure, I asked her pointed questions about her kindergarten class, expecting to hear tales of religious indoctrination. (After all, it’s Texas—a place that recently revised school textbooks in order to brainwash its youth on the evils of homosexuality.) If Texas elementary schools were cracking down on “Christmas” with the same aggression as the article suggested, I’d have cause for concern...
...just the sermons of radical clerics that brainwash young Thai Muslims. On many of the youths killed on April 28, a 65-page booklet was found. TIME has seen a copy. Handwritten in Malay, the language of Thai Muslims, but using Arabic, not Roman, script, most of the pamphlet consists of repeated exhortations to the "Warriors of Martyrdom." A sample: "Sacrifice your flesh to the last drop of blood ... blood that will trickle down the warriors' bodies and flood the soil in red, reflecting a red radiance across the sky at dawn and dusk, the East and West calling...
...sticks his head in Dr. M.'s apparatus--an Ed Wood--style space helmet mixed with a hair dryer--but, as his mind swims through the memory-erasure process, he decides that even the rotten memories of Clem are worth treasuring. How to stop all this, escape from Camp Brainwash, especially when the doc's klutzy technicians (Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst) are more attentive to their own weird erotic vectors than to the fellow whose love affair they are extracting...