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...Dinelli; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) is young and very dangerous-a paranoiac with a persecution mania who comes to do a day's cleaning for a kindly, middle-aged widow. At first he cleans a little and complains a little. Then he slowly starts manifesting symptoms of mental disorder, conveying suggestions of physical violence. All the while he is also locking doors until the terrified housewife is completely his prisoner. The end is still some way off, but sufficiently gruesome when it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

Incest of the Soul. If August Strindberg had lived in the heyday of Freud, he would probably have been locked up as a paranoiac or reduced to the status of a dull neurotic. Since he died unpsychoanalyzed, in 1912, he remained merely a famous literary figure and an exceedingly odd duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poppa Could See in the Dark | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...completely incredible bit of hocus-pocus in which Noah fights ten big soldiers, one by one, gets beaten up and sent to the hospital and is never helped by any officer in the Army camp. While there was anti-Semitism in the Army, it never resembled Shaw's paranoiac version of it. A good, calloused editor would have helped Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broadway Blinkers | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...South Carolina accent was heard in more than 300 Radio Berlin broadcasts, composed largely of rancid outpourings against "the paranoiac in the White House," "Clown Churchill," "the Jew Deal," the "Bolshevik Beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: None Too Good | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...paranoiac gentlefolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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