Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill's space colonization scheme "to relieve the earth's overcrowding" would be well worth the great expense if the colonists were the antiabortionists and/or religious leaders who stand in the way of simpler solutions to the overpopulation problem...
Apart from my static memories and my incompetence at softball. I felt depressed about my future and about me. I couldn't seem to figure out my future. Midway through April a graduate student. I knew developed a scheme to go to work for Saudi Arabia. "But there are some drawbacks," he would concede. "They don't treat Jews well-they might not even hire me. My social life there--well, let's not talk about it. But they pay well, and if I learned Arabic, when I came back I could find a job teaching that." My schemes weren...
Maybe some of my readers were not fooled by the success-story format of my article. But most probably were. We don't like to see things like legless little boys--they contradict our expectations and desires about the world. So we become willing accomplices in a scheme to cover up the truth. We have great psychological use for someone like Robin Starling who can appear to be normal and who therefore affirms what we would like to believe. We can successfully go on fooling ourselves like this because Robin Starling has a great stake in-making sure that...
...nearly killed him--and proceeding as if it didn't exist. He was, in a sense, fooling himself and, of course, fooling everyone else. But all of us--the readers, the newspaper which published his story, and myself, the person who wrote the story--were willing collaborators in the scheme to shove Robin Starling into an acceptable mold. We were all fooling ourselves...
Kissinger's pre-eminent role must come to an end. His approach is too limited, his plans too global, for either side to rely on him entirely. His attempt to arouse anti-Israel sentiment in this country, and pressure the Rabin government into accepting his scheme for a troop withdrawal should be recognized as a cruel and reckless response of a man who fears that his role as the power to be reckoned with is in danger...