Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that irony, which is in all events, that defeats all the illusions we have about the choices that we make up for ourselves. LONG before the event, we have committed ourselves to courses of action which are folly and disaster. And all along the line we invent choices which we think are real but are just cover...
...think that's the nature of the fake morality that we live by. We invent right and wrong, so that we seem to be making very good choices all the time-and that's a trap! Long before that, we've committed the disaster. And all these choices that we seem to be making are not choices...
...With the world going to hell in a handbasket what with overpopulation, air pollution, water pollution, the destruction of natural resources, war, racial hatred and famine, some clown had to invent -and invest millions in-ads that smell. As if they don't anyway...
...Martian Mode In the psychotic mind, fact and fantasy mingle freely. The line between the real and the imagined easily blurs or disappears. Most madmen invent their own worlds. If the charges against Charles Manson, accused along with five members of his self-styled "family" of killing Sharon Tate and six other people, are true, Manson showed no powers of invention at all. In the weeks since his indictment, those connected with the case have discovered that he may have murdered by the book. The book is Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, an imaginative science...
Nearly two years of sporadic strikes, riots, sinking trade balances, a franc devaluation and other troubles led French Economist Jean-Marie Albertini to invent a Monopoly-like game called Ec-oplany. In it, players assume the role of finance ministers and try to outwit each other at running a national economy. By rolling dice, each participant is tossed from recessions to failing harvests to baby booms. Unless he learns quickly, a novice will find himself strikebound, bankrupt or on the verge of civil war in no time...