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What white voters, in cities like Chicago, who entertain racist phobia toward Afro-American candidates fail to recognize is that their paranoid style political preferences are not fixed habits for all white voters and can be checkmuted when Blacks are galvanized to turnout in larger numbers than whites. These conditions happily obtained in Chicago's April 12th mayoral election, gave Harold Washington a more than 42,000 vote edge over Republican Bernard Epton, out of more than 1,3 million votes cast. Upper middle-class and professional whites in the Lakefront wards kept their own racial feelings in check enough...
Everybody knows an alcoholic, and everybody thinks he knows why the person drinks. Weak character. No self-control. Had a miserable childhood. Has a terrible marriage. Cannot face reality. Hates work. Is paranoid. The denials and rationalizations, the self-pity and selfimportance, the guilt and anguish are all parts of a predetermined type, the "alcoholic personality." Right...
...idea that they are somehow making you more and more secure, you come closer to the day of your own destruction. Anxiety neurosis is full of paradoxes like that." Of particular concern, he said, are "trip-wire" first-strike systems now being planned and deployed, which he called "paranoid" and "destabilizing...They are an invitation...
...courtier. Yet by word of mouth, force of reputation and the example of four or five paintings he executed there, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio completely changed the face of Neapolitan painting at the start of the 17th century. A few months after his second arrival in the city, this paranoid, violent homosexual genius was dead at 37, leaving two generations of painters from Naples to Brussels with a legacy to pick over...
...William Richert, a novice writerdirector, strode out of Closetland with a pair of black-comic fantasias on the lust for power: Winter Kills and Success. What happened next would fulfill a paranoid's darkest hopes. With all the good grace of a Mafia don consigning a nosy reporter to cement sneakers in the East River, Hollywood offhandedly dumped Richert's films. Winter Kills, which twisted an assassination scenario into high-voltage satire, was pulled from release after a few weeks. Success, a screwball comedy on the doppelganger theme, was left to molder in its distributor's vaults...