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...Paranoid Outburst. To find out just what was happening, a group from Environmental Action in Washington, D.C., visited Globe. With them was Dr. Samuel Epstein, a distinguished expert on herbicides from the Harvard Medical School. The group ended up perplexed -and incredulous. Some of the Silvex-touched residents tried to check on Dr. Epstein's credentials by telephoning Harvard. In a paranoid outburst, others accused the investigators of being impostors, really representatives of chemical manufacturers in clever disguise. The real Dr. Epstein, they said, had died six years ago. To look further into the mystery, eight Government scientists left...
...best, most intense passages, the doctor castigates the nation's institutionalized offenses-among them: social injustice, pollution, and a war brought on by what Spock calls "paranoid self-deception." His moral objection to that war led Spock to join the antiwar movement. But perhaps because no pediatrician would ever throw out the baby with the bath water, Spock shies away from the violent implications of revolutionary radicalism...
...cultural and psychological factors. The accidental in history too often eludes them. The American Revolution, for example, was not necessarily the inevitable product of contending social forces. In his Origins of American Politics, Bernard Bailyn points out that the colonial leaders, misled by radical British publicists, developed an almost paranoid fear that the British Crown was adding to its power when in reality that power was waning. This misreading of the times contributed significantly to the movement for independence...
Drugs can only be legally administered by a veterinarian but around the racetrack many drugs are given without the "doctor's orders." Trainers, a paranoid and calculating lot, seek the infinitesimal edge over their neighbor. They suspect their best friend of trying to beat them out of a purse and a winning bet, and as a defense they scheme 24 hours a day to protect themselves against chicanery. For a few of them the best defense is a good offense, and their rule is- if you don't get caught, you didn...
...their part, the Soviets are deeply disturbed by the prospect of the renewed Sino-American talks. As Harrison Salisbury notes in his recent book, War Between Russia and China, the Soviets have "an almost paranoid fear that the United States might turn up in China's corner." It might be added that the Chinese are haunted by a similar nightmare about the Russians making a deal with...