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...Your Essay "Right You Are if You Say You Are-Obscurely" [Dec. 30] was merely an acute masochistic reaction formation to your own hostile-aggressive syntax, which itself derives from an inadequate ego-syntonic defense system with paranoiac overtones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1967 | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...before the orbiting cameras. The figurative curtain that it has drawn around itself is not of iron but, more appropriately for the Orient, of pliable bamboo. Yet of all the earth's too many closed societies, that of Red China ranks as the most ominously secretive. This secretiveness, paranoiac in its intensity, is the more worrisome to the world because militant Red China is the global troublemaker with the greatest revolutionary threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT THE U.S. KNOWS ABOUT RED CHINA | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Thus the plot of Absalom, Absalom! sums up the fundamental Southern anxiety: to the racist's question, "would you want your sister to marry one," Faulkner adds "when he may be your brother?" This, Faulkner seems to say, lies at the heart of the almost paranoiac fear of the "mixing of bloods," which would call in question the belief in a difference between the races on which white dominance was founded, and which, as the owner of one of Mississippi's largest plantations said last week, is still "very real for many whites today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Curse & The Hope | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

Your thinking, if it can be called thinking, on foreign policy is exactly the type of archaic, paranoiac, if not dangerous thought that the Senator is remarking upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 17, 1964 | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

Your thinking, if it can be called thinking, on foreign policy is exactly the type of archaic, paranoiac, if not dangerous thought that the Senator is remarking upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 17, 1964 | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

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