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...comes on to her in a punk-rock bar, she growls, "I was lookin' for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain." Feminist frustration is mixed with existential nuttiness: "You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic . . . just because she lives in your body." Redeeming all this from idle perversity are hints of a disillusioned romantic buried underneath...
Anyone who doubts that the Constitution is a living thing that changes and evolves should think about the difference between the document then and now. As framed 200 years ago, the Constitution was virtually paranoid on the subject of democracy. James Madison wrote in The Federalist about his view of democracy and direct government. If every Athenian citizen had been a Socrates, he thought, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. The founders began, "We the People." And yet "the People" had very little to do with writing the thing. The framers, working behind closed doors and shut...
...Goetz case is not remotely like a lynching, but is rather the overreaction of a paranoid crime victim; a victim whose attackers were Black. It is precisely because there is no certain culprit--only a frazzled electrical engineer and a violent society--that this case is argued in terms of the hypothetical...
...fact, true liberation for women and men will only be a reality when all of us realize that the whole, healthy human person is able to need and be needed without becoming either an oppressor or the forgotten and self-effeacing non-entity Greaves and Rader rightly decry. The paranoid fear of weakness of any kind, of an expression of need or dependence in any aspect of of life, is the shameful and destructive inheritance of our male-dominated history. There are many traits traditionally considered "feminine" (or more pejoratively still, "effeminate"), and evaluated negatively, but the solution to this...
School for Wives is the first in Moliere's trilogy of comic masterpieces. It opens with the imminent marriage of Arnolphe (Eric Oleson), an arrogant country squire and "raving paranoid." Obsessed with a fear of being ridiculed in his choice of a wife, Arnolphe has carefully planned his marriage over many years. He took charge of a young peasant girl, Agnes (Katherine Robin), and raised her just as he wished--innocent and stupid, a girl who thinks "children are begotten through the ear." Now that she's reached marriageable age, he's brought her to a secluded manor near...