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...Wells to George Orwell, and from Isaac Asimov to Harlan Ellison, science fiction writers have cared about the future. Whether science fiction can retain its present form remains a question. Ironically, the major drawback of many of the writers in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow is their almost paranoid concern with the purity of science fiction in the future. Like cold War Warriors faced with detente, the once isolated science fiction writer must confront a vast new audience that contains many of his old enemies...
...these two leaders view as key resources to bring Cambridge around to fiscal sanity? Both men believe that it is Harvard that must exercise the biggest role. "Harvard is so god-damned paranoid that it is afraid to ask for anything, so there emerges a leadership crisis," Jones says. "As a businessman and Chamber of Commerce president I have chosen to lean heavily on Harvard and MIT for cooperation...
WBCN is good at making even the most serious of political events look like self-parodies, but some of their idle speculations about Watergate rest on too many paranoid assumptions. These assumptions make phrases like the description of Haldeman and Erlichman as "the german shepherds, the palace guards, the leaders of the White House Band," memorable, but they also lack any kind of insightful analysis. That's not to say that exercises in paranoia are bad, "especially then, when all of the facts still weren't out. The record only leaves you wishing BCN would do another show about Watergate...
Alexander Cockburn--who seems to understand what 70s magazine journalism is all about--writes a lot about conspiracies, and he has an article in the current Harper's on the Robert Kennedy assassination. Conspiracy writing in the 60s fell into disrepute because it tended toward the paranoid and sensational, and Cockburn and his co-author Betsy Langman proceed carefully. They build a persuasive case, full of evidence, heroes and villains, for the argument that Sirhan B. Sirhan could not have killed Kennedy--he was too far away, and had the wrong kind of gun. Their conclusions are muted; they suggest...
...salt that are found in a diet rich in pork and highly seasoned soul food. Others suggest that the pressures of being black in America are enough to cause the disease. Indeed, a common joke among blacks is "If you're black and you ain't paranoid or suffering from hypertension, you don't know what's going...