Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this country's finest and most often wasted actresses, and this is one of the few occasions I have seen her in a part worthy of her talents. Her gawky physique and nasal delivery are perfect means for presenting the character's uneasy balance of self-assurance and paranoia. When, in the second act, one of the daughters forces her mother to confront her own horrible past. Miss Heckart reveals Beatrice's long repressed wounds with a low-keyed bitterness that is devastating...
...well. It was discovered that Hoover keeps a fleet of armored limousines around the country that outnumbers the presidential limousines. Documents stolen by radical activists from the Media, Pa., FBI office outlined the agency's use of undercover informers; one memorandum encouraged local agents to exacerbate "the paranoia endemic in [New Left] circles that there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox" by questioning radicals about their activities at every opportunity. In the midst of the Boggs controversy last week, the FBI forced the resignations of two low-ranking clerks for their after-hours envelope stuffing at a peace...
...would be a tribute to white paranoia, of course, if racial backlash alone could sabotage a poverty program in Massachusetts that would aid almost entirely whites. Many popular conceptions have mistaken the pluralism of poverty- the poor are the elderly and disabled citizens, more often farmers than Boston teenagers, and some are working poor who support themselves on low and undependable earnings. To help any one category of the poor requires several agencies and Beer wisely suggests that the state divide poverty programs into areas, considering the different mixes of the poor in each. But since the plan...
...invasion force became a thoroughly disorganized society. Perhaps even more debilitating was the threat, real or imagined, of a Government bust. A sort of Castroesque paranoia set in; the "Alcatraz Security Force,"complete with special jackets and a "training" room off limits to outsiders, for a time was rude and overweening even to sympathizers sincerely trying to help. Though supposedly prohibited, drugs and alcohol became staples of island life. Petty jealousies simmered and bloody brawls exploded. One Indian artist tried to set up a studio only to be burned out by several of his estranged comrades...
There was a pretty general consensus that more interviews with these subjects and hangers-on are in order for plenty of reasons, chief of which are it will enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles and will further serve to get the point across there is an FBI Agent behind every mailbox. In addition, some will be overcome by the overwhelming personalities of the contacting agent and volunteer to tell all-perhaps on a continuing basis. The Director has okayed PSI's and SI's age 18 to 21. We have been blocked off from this critical age group...