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...have been the most brilliant player in history, retired from the game at 21 after only 18 months of tournament play. Refusing to play or even talk about the game, he failed as a lawyer and lived out the rest of his life in New Orleans as a paranoid recluse. Morphy was given to such eccentricities as arranging women's shoes in a semicircle in his room and prancing around his veranda reciting in French that "the little king will go away unabashed." He died in the bathtub, presumably of apoplexy...
...organization has no better testimonial to its usefulness than the experience of its Chicago-based director of leader training, Phil Crane, 64. His law career was cut short by paranoid schizophrenia, and he had more than 90 electroshock treatments. After that, Recovery. "It taught me self-help techniques," Crane explains. "I'd wake up, panicked that I would again become mentally ill and have to go back to the hospital. So I'd practice what Low called spotting, which is simply learning to recognize that these are only nervous symptoms-distressing but not dangerous. I then practiced...
...officeholders?all the regulars unhorsed by the McGovern reforms and outorganized by what is now the McGovern machine. Only 19 of the nation's 30 Democratic Governors came to Miami Beach, and none played a significant role. As Eagleton noted earlier last week, most of his colleagues have "become paranoid because they think we're headed for disaster...
...second girl is Bobbi Michele, a paranoid pothead whom Barney picks up while munching peanuts on a bench in Central Park. He lends her the cash to hire an accompanist for an audition on Broadway. When she shows up at Mom's apartment the next day to repay the money, all of Barney's fantasies of extramarital fulfillment vanish in a haze of marijuana smoke...
...Norman's amorous gestures, Sophie loses her job at a YMCA swimming pool, and actually goes to work for the magazine--falling in love with Andy Hobart, the more conventionally attractive radical, not only Norman's publisher but his best friend. En route to the final resolution, Norman becomes paranoid and Andy embittered, through Sophie remains throughout just plain Sophie...