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...ROOM, hot-shot novelist Don DeLillo turns insanity into a laughing matter. "Nothing original in that," you say, "it's been done hundreds of times since Hamlet." But DeLillo, the paragon of paranoid lit, has packed his literary loonybin with so much intelligence and dramatic punch that madness starts to look like an appealing state of affairs...
Instead, Clendenning said the Americans who created "Amerika" made the enemy in their own image. He claimed that rather than presenting typically Soviet characters, the film "indicates to Americans that the Russians are just like us, only a little poorer and a little more paranoid...
...also take this opportunity to correct one remark attributed to me by Mr. Wall in the article. I did not state that my "...advisees suffer an almost paranoid fear that their financial aid checks won't come through..." I did say that many Harvard-Radcliffe students might not appreciate keenly the experience of a low income or working class student awaiting the arrival of her/his financial aid check. Robert Read
Robert R. Read, who runs a discussion group at the Bureau of Study Council (BSC) for economically disadvantaged students, says his advisees suffer an almost paranoid fear that their financial aid checks won't come through, leaving them without money to pay term bills...
...acute at Brown. While Harvard's University Health Services reports few incidents of chemical abuse, doctors at Brown's clinic see about four to six cases of alcohol abuse per weekend and a couple of cases of drug use per month. "I think students are a little bit more paranoid about being caught with drugs," Simons says...