Word: planet
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...looking to replace." Hyde says he has already been handed a picture of Hitler, compared to Marshall Petain and accused of betraying his oath. The experience has made him wonder whether "people can honestly change their minds and still be fellow citizens and deserve space on this planet." The N.R.A. will let him know...
...leftists have long attacked him as an insensitive conservative. Feminist discontent about the women in his fiction has been duly registered. More recently, Brent Staples, an editorial writer for the New York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler's Planet, and in March, critic Alfred Kazin wrote in the New Yorker that "my heart sank when I heard that Bellow once asked, 'Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans...
...constructions. The subordination of America to the will of "the allies," or the U.N. Secretary-General, or the even vaguer notion of the "international community" provides a convenient alibi for failure. But it is also a near guarantee of failure and a source of endless, needless humbling of the planet's sole remaining superpower...
There are so many other interesting Harvard personages worthy of description: the math/Physics genius who lives on another planet, the Eliot House power-monger, the Milk-Toast achiever who lacks a personality but gets the grade, and the pre-thespian exhibitionist whose personality is always on display...
...windows into strange craft and have this going on all over the country." But after hearing dozens of such stories, Mack concluded that the abductions were real. Moreover, he discerned a motive behind them: the abductors, it seems, were implanting mind-to-mind messages urging better care of the planet. The aliens' apparent objective was an intergalactic breeding program combined with a brotherly warning of impending doom if the earth doesn't change its warlike and ecologically wasteful ways...