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...Imagine myself and Dick Neustadt and all the others arriving at the basement of the White House with a tape recorder!" Bator sputtered. "It's grotesque! It's incredible how utterly grotesque paranoid rumors circulate as reality. Reston's column Monday suggested that in the end we protected Henry's confidences. But there were no confidences! The idea that this has to do with Kissinger's relation to Harvard is grotesque on its face...
...real reasons behind the Presidio and Levy court-martials had to do with discipline and politics. Discipline is what the Service wants more than anything else from its men, and independent political thought is one of the gravest conceivable dangers to discipline. Not surprisingly, the Army gets paranoid as soon as a serviceman's politics drift left of far right. Levy, for instance, combined his questioning of the war effort with civil rights work in Mississippi. The Pesidio defendants had the bad luck of sitting in two days after a major west coast anti-war protest in October. 1968. Imagining...
...listed as Professor of Scientology, was L. Ron Hubbard.) Lastly, L. Ron's happy marriage is his third; the first two ended in divorce. His second wife charged that he subjected her to "beatings and torture" and she said that a psychiatrist had told her that Hubbard suffered from "paranoid schizophrenia." Hubbard countered, charging her with "gross neglect of duty" and he won a divorce from...
...purple neckscarf and his selfesteem. Besides his disappointments as an artist, his principal frustration is the failure to secure a "vocation" in the Church of Rome, to which he converted "overnight" at the age of 26. Not even a lowly "clerk" let alone a prelate, this blustery paranoid and repressed homosexual aspires to be the first English Pontiff since Breakspear in the twelfth century...
Since the white man has been the perpetrator of violence more often than the black, why does he persist in projecting his own misdeeds upon his victims? Poussaint explains: "Individuals who are deeply prejudiced frequently use this paranoid mechanism to avoid facing painful truths about unacceptable impulses and fears within themselves. Racist feelings can unconsciously become deeply enmeshed in one's own psyche and serve neurotic needs in an effort to shore up a shaky emotional equilibrium and sense of selfesteem. Because of their abuse and rejection of blacks, many whites have developed a great deal of understandable guilt...