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Jack Guerney, (Peter O'Toole), the 13th Earl of Guerney has just come into his inheritance by his father's fatal eccentricity. (The old man accidentally hung himself to death in a cocktail hour habit of stringing himself up by the neck in ballerina regalia.) But Jack is a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is the God of Love, a charming and loveable idiot who can't stop raving about goodness and love. (Jack's explanation for his divine identity is this: "When I pray to Him, I find I'm talking to myself...
...mood at Tuesday's Faculty meeting can only be described as paranoid...
Much is left hanging in this final installment. The highly imaginative, novelistic qualities of Castaneda's three books have led some people to doubt that Don Juan exists. A few paranoid hippies doubt even that Castaneda exists. (He does). But whether it is Castaneda's fiction or the turn of real events, the narrative has taken its readers for a bizarre ride. The popularity of the first book can be explained in part by the fascination with psychedelic drugs which peaked near the time of its publication. The accounts of supernatural events told in sober, unadorned prose were a welcome...
...Marxist ideal of classless society without possessing Marz`s Knowledge of how that ideal must take root in a specific historical content. They join with the religion of Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique of working class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American politics; to a rejection of the entire American culture, expect for the pseudo-folk or transcendental-poetic, No Bogart movies for the Isaacsons, only Paul Robeson at Peekskill or Barbirolli's Philharmonic at the Lewiston Stadium...
...Flies. An unpopular Latin teacher nicknamed "Old Lash" (James Mason) is certain that all the trouble is caused by his colleague Dobbs (Robert Preston), whom he describes as a "malevolence" and an "obscenity." Dobbs, however, is beloved of all the boys and Lash heartily despised as an overbearing, paranoid pedant. The bitter rivalry between the two teachers leads eventually to madness, suicide and the equivocal triumph of evil, at least as far as the Code and Rating Administration will allow...