Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orwell said," Viorst quotes Ginsberg, "a functioning police state doesn't need police to enforce. They get people to internalize. In 1984, the people don't realize there's a war at the other end of the planet. Then, suddenly, they wake up to the fact that there has been some vast conditioning. Brainwashing may be too strong a word, but it's accurate. It was a conditioning so that the public was able to amnesiaize vast areas of its own consciousness...
Premise No. 2: An overly ambitious assistant professor of psychology (Alan Arkin) is afflicted with intellectual pretentiousness and a messianic complex. He is also an orphan, which means that it might be possible to convince him and everyone else that he was produced "like a toaster" on some other planet and brought to earth in a spaceship. The mad scientists put the hero in a water tank for days to take him back beyond the womb. They induce false but highly persuasive memories of his origins and, incidentally, provide Arkin with a tour de force mime sequence in which...
...call the planet dignified, we have to treat it with dignity, the way Channing treated his parishioners," Vonnegut said. "And we still have our missiles if my suggestion is no good," he deadpanned...
...PRECEDENT set in these two pieces of evil law is simple. Congress has determined that any pork barrel project, no matter how ill-conceived, is worth more than any whole species of creatures that share this planet with us. In the face of this blatantly self-interested drive by Congress, Carter has failed to stand by his early attempts to block the construction of useless projects, as he has failed to stand by the Endangered Species Act when it needed him most...
...terrifying in part because the Soviet Union already feels itself sufficiently threatened from within and without. It has become a more dangerous adversary than it would under conditions of free trade under most-favored-nation status and greater American willingness to recognize that we must live on the same planet with this major nuclear power as they must live with us. Hence, I have opposed the human rights doctrine of President Jimmy Carter form the very outset despite my full recognition of the terrible conditions of life in the Soviet Union, though far less terrible than in Stalin...