Word: deprogramming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regular students sit in classes and painfully grind their teeth in frustration, the B.S.O.H. has virtually taken over the humanities classes. Varied attempts have been made to "deprogram" B.S.O.H members in order to make classes safe again for education--everything from hefty fines for pseudo-intellectual statements to my personal favorite, decapitation. But nothing seems to work...
ORCA developed its plan for the release in consultation with the federal Marine Mammal Commission. Last fall the project got under way. Alling taped underwater sounds at the Georgia site to familiarize the dolphins with their new habitat. To deprogram them, O'Barry simply reversed normal training procedures. Instead of rewarding the dolphins when they performed, he would turn his back. To ease their transition to catching moving fish for food, the team clipped the tails off mullet to slow them down...
...followers could dial in to hear his inspirational messages and be massaged for donations. Things were heavenly until Atlanta's Edward Johnson, who holds a grudge against television evangelists, programmed his Atari to dial Falwell's number every 30 seconds. In December, Southern Bell got Johnson to deprogram his computer, but publicity over the incident inspired other Falwell foes to dial away. Among the harassers: homosexuals angered at Falwell's crusade against them. Some 25% of the 1 million toll-free calls a year were coming from cranks, at a cost to Falwell of $1 a call. Last week...
...idea in Simon: five brilliant but loony scientists at the "Institute for Advanced Concepts" decide that the American public is ready to meet a full-fledged alien in its already alienated society. They search for a middle-aged male orphan whose memory they plan to deprogram, and then convince him that his mother was a spaceship who dropped him on earth from an advanced civilization where humans are made the way we make toasters. One Simon Mendelssohn becomes their victim, an untenured professor of psychology who is slightly off the deep end already...