Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knew that the reality of George Orwell's 1984 was creeping up on us slowly, but now it has arrived. Your story about the black boxes that give off subliminal mind-controlling messages [Sept. 10] was shocking. Inventor Hal C. Becker is playing God, deciding which mind-controlling messages are O.K. for the masses and which ones...
Kain said the delay in the accreditation renewal "was never a terrible and calamitous thing in our mind. It's one of those which at one level really isn't important. But it's a lot easier to have the accreditation than to have to explain to 200 million people out there that it isn't a great issue...
This time it was clear what Nixon had in mind; I was offered the job of Security Adviser. The President-elect repeated his view of the incompetence of the CIA and the untrustworthiness of the State Department. The position of Security Adviser was therefore crucial to his plan to run foreign policy from the White House...
...would gather around the babbler, speaking softly among ourselves. Theoretically anyone listening in would be unable to distinguish the real conversation from the cacophony of recorded voices. Whether it worked or not we could never be sure. The only certainty was that anyone trying to talk through the mind-numbing babble for any length of time would lose his own sanity. Thus we used it sparingly. Usually we spoke elliptically or wrote notes to one another. A colleague and I sometimes took a walk in the garden, even there whispering to each other because Willy Brandt's security people...
...Gazing at you I get the heat." Reverse the title of Who Are You, and the point comes clear; listen to Music Must Change, one of the album's best cuts, and Townshend's fusion of music and audience is complete: "Deep in the back of my mind is an unrealized sound ... Confirmed in the eyes of the kids/ Emphasized with their fists...