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...society as a whole and here at Harvard. It will, hopefully, encourage many people, straight and gay, to confront their feelings and come to terms with them--so that there will be fewer gays going through the emotional gymnastics necessary to life in the closet and fewer paranoid and stereotype-ridden straight people to contend with while coming, and being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Praise of Eloquence | 12/13/1977 | See Source »

Time magazine, in its schizophrenic--half scientific, half manic paranoid--cover story on gay life in America (September 8, 1975), referred to coming out as a "rite of passage." So it seemed to me--until I began to come...

Author: By Chuck Fraser, | Title: A Gay Student's Experience at Harvard Coming Out | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

That may be the heart of the problem. Carter has been thinking out loud. Much of his talk is unnecessary, a lot of it ineffective, some of it troublesome. The world is slightly paranoid over word meanings. Bureaucrats and diplomats get exorbitant salaries these days to ponder the depths of "homeland" or "defensible borders." In the torrent of Carter words there are always contradictions for those who want to find them. For others, there is growing boredom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Trouble with Loose Lingo | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...that school right where we wanted it. We demoralized its highly-touted, "Watch-us-win-the-NCAAs-and-then-see-who-laughs" soccer squad this fall in a 3-1 upset. We embarrassed its then-undefeated but always paranoid football team at the stadium a month ago with a 31-25 triumph that proved to once again turn back the clock on the Green's Ivy Title hopes...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Woodsman Choppeth | 11/16/1977 | See Source »

...Israelis irrational? As the saying goes, "You may be paranoid, but that doesn't mean they're not out to get you." Carole Wade Offir Del Mar, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1977 | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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