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...broad range of Genet's material as to its failure as pure theater. The current word on this literary-intellectual exercise maintains that The Blacks concerns not so much racial schism as the general violence and absurdity of the modern world. This theory nicely dilutes Genet's paranoid tension and allows the white audience to sit back comfortably, philosophizing about French absurdist theatre and Saint Sordid Genet...
President Horner, a member of the University Crime Committee, said yesterday that she supports stricter enforcement of trespassing laws but is "dead-set against" extensive record-keeping which could cause "anyone to be paranoid...
...could conceivably lead to defeat. Downing a beer in a Cleveland bar and listening to bluegrass one night, Forman flailed his arms and wailed, "I'm not upset about anything! That's wrong--What can I get upset about?" Later, he said sardonically, "At least you see what a paranoid, uptight thing a campaign...
...participants in detente must get over the paranoid complex of the Cold War and the domino theory," he said...
Simpson is weak and paranoid because he has a right to be, Ambler seems to be saying--you need animal cunning to get through these days, and this is Simpson's only virtue. There is no need for the facile theme of having Simpson discover his "manhood" through his experiences--only Simpson feeling immensely pleased with himself at the end of Dirty Story for hitting an armed man from behind with a blunt instrument...