Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretaries who talked about their work over coffee breaks were always reprimanded," comments one former employee who says the atmosphere where she worked was one of paranoia...
...Lehman was going to make it a film for the ears, he could at least have been faithful to the book. Roth's Portnoy eventually loses and gains inhibitions in Israel: he loses paranoia in the Homeland where everything is Jewish ("I am playing in a sea full of Jews! Look at their Jewish limbs moving through the Jewish water!") but he also loses his potency. Internal restrictions replace imagined outer ones. And kvetching gets you nowhere...
Some think that the Administration, if it did indeed set up the operation, was after something else. There is, says one insider, "almost a paranoia" in the Government about all of the leaks of confidential papers and memoranda to Jack Anderson and others; someone trying to find the source of the leaks might have figured that O'Brien would know. (Oddly, Frank Sturgis is a longtime Anderson source.) The trouble with both theories is that they ascribe slightly sophomoric motives and methods to presumably serious...
...first line of defense is what less high-strung observers might call simple paranoia. Harrington himself tells the story of visiting a friend in San Francisco and pulling down the blinds because, he says, "I found myself explaining that in the exposed living room I made too easy a target." But at the end the author also finds himself explaining that psychopaths have certain valuable qualities: their daring mocks our caution, their sense of self shames our self-effacement. Swept on by his own rhetoric, Harrington concludes with a bizarre version of the New Mysticism, in which the psychopath...
With mixed feelings of "joy and paranoia," Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, 53, appeared before a tough, critical audience last week: the National Press Club in Washington. To the newsmen, the protean showman defended his Mass-the liturgical theater piece he wrote to open the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last September. One of the many misconceptions he wanted to clear up, said Lenny, was the idea that Rose Kennedy hated the composition. "The only quotes I ever read of hers in the press were 'I liked Hair better' and 'Don't hug me so hard...