Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon's apparent offer of carte blanche to the Administration whose policies he has so roundly criticized did, however, raise several questions. What if Johnson begins serious negotiations with the Russians over arms control? Nixon, after all, is on record as favoring such negotiations only after the U.S. improves its military posture. What if Johnson promises the Communists something that Nixon is not prepared to give in order to achieve peace in Viet Nam? It would be Nixon who would have to live with the arrangement...
Computers have changed the face of business and finance, and not just by eliminating the wizened clerks hunching over desks in the back room. They control the running of airline and train arrivals and departures, and it is within the foreseeable future that they will coordinate all aspects of travel including hotel and car rentals. Banks, insurance companies and the stock market are becoming automated. The list is endless, and boring...
...warn you of the obstacles facing serious seekers after truth. For not only does our false linear cause and effect way of thinking promote illusion, but people are actively trying to keep you from becoming one with the universe. They try to use you for their own ends, to control you. They use machines to run your life (pg.2). They use newspapers to promote false ways of thinking (pg.3 and the front page of today's Crimson). They have ads to make you do what they want (pg.6). But do not despair. Contemplate the life of Fred Shibley (pg.7); meditate...
...facing death, Mao has evidently lost his contempt for it, and fears the collapse of his vision and the loss of his life's work. Mao's vision has turned on him, out of control. It has undermined the party, while failing to achieve its total reform of Chinese society. It has tried to remake human nature and failed. It may not destroy China or even Chinese Communism, but his radical effort has brought China...
...think now is the time for your great act of will. To write for a living is a relatively liberated decision to make. But you find yourself forced by circumstances beyond your control (e.g., hunger) to write a lot of journalistic stuff you don't want to. You success is determined by the chance meeting of certain editors and the arbitrary dispositions of potential publishers when they read your work...