Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country of the mad, the creative loon is king. Around Gabriel cluster amiable freaks, all of whom, like him, define a precarious balance by opposing their craziness to the paranoia of the outside city. There is Walter, an amateur Polish historian, whose East Village flat is filled to the ceiling with grimy bales of newspaper, all destined to be cross-indexed and given to a university in Warsaw; Dulcie Kraft, a Texas scientologist; Beamer, a novelist writing a book about morning sickness, "privately printed and sent only to monasteries"; Orville, a pot dealer and "passing student of Eastern cosmic consciousness...
...upper classes. Truly saddening are the attempts Peter makes to talk with a Satan-enthralled ingenue in a record shop, and a coed of more super-ficial pretensions reading Hesse in a park. He is, in both cases, peremptorily cut off. It is probably a symptom of general urban paranoia that this action seems almost inevitable...
...than feigning madness, is really mad, and has given a psychological interpretation to the play. Unfortunately, the text will not bear it. While Miller's actor cavorts about the stage like something out of The Golden Bough, Shakespeare's text is depicting a hero acting more from pietas than paranoia. The conflict between Shakespeare's Hamlet and Miller's destroys the play...
Cattle Bin. No one has yet proved that a conspiracy really exists. "The basic problem here is paranoia," insists Lawyer Norman Brisson, whose firm represents one of the young defendants. "I don't believe our kids have ever met a Weatherman." Other citizens have begun to wonder if the letters and explosives may not be just sick pranks. Since one device had "school" written on it, many young people agree with a self-styled radical student: "That was a joke. The school is run like a cattle bin. We've got to change it, and if we have...
After a bitter battle between the former conservative (or moderate) and liberal caucuses two years ago, most of the central issues and much of the personal antagonism between caucus members had seemingly subsided this Fall. "While the residue of the caucuses is still around, and the residue of the paranoia's around, the University seems to be coming around to a united position," one dean remarked...