Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father, I don't feel it is necessary to design my family around the needs of my religion but rather around the needs of my economic status and the world at large. Any attempt at equating Z.P.G. with anti-Semitism is a frightening Kafkaesque paranoia...
...Night Moves, Gene Hackman is Harry Moseby, also an observer. But the theme here is no private drama or study in paranoia; Moseby's problem is knowing where he's headed. A pro-football player turned private investigator in L.A., he's a failure to his wife, who when she can't reach him cheats on him, almost in frustration. He disrespects himself for hiring himself out on divorce cases, but he can't help it--the step-by-step of the process fascinates him, as though by compartmentalizing experience and solving things he's getting at the root...
...only known exception to this rule was his Inquiry listing a string of actions by the History faculty, that ranged from declining to waive department requirements to acting rude to him in elevators. "None of this was in my self-interest," he wrote, in a classic expression of Harvard paranoia. "I began to see the pattern emerging...
...Carl E. Taylor, professor of international health at the Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, said this week that too much publicity about the visa question will only increase Saudi "paranoia" that it is the Jewish community that controls American universities...
...happily at the mouth about (punishment for exceeding quota: a month at Judith Crist's movie camp with continuous showings of At Long Last Love) M. would be a picture to stand by. Fritz Lang's direction turns the cinema into images which fuse with one's own societal paranoia. There are a whole list of things which you may never do again after seeing M and a few of them are: whistle the Peer Gynt Suite, allow a kid to walk to school without an armed guard, see a floating balloon and not wonder where its owner...