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...outsider, I cannot adequately comment on the unrest in and debate over Social Sciences 5. However, I am frightened by the description of a "paranoid outlook" among some students. Paranoia is an overworked, rarely understood term. Typically it belongs in clinical diagnostics and even then, I find its use often excessive and unwarranted. More importantly, many psychologists have reminded us that where paranoia is diagnosed, in fact there are phenomena in the environment making the reaction, the outlook somewhat justified...
Kilson, a member of the teaching staff for the course, blasted the black critics for holding the prejudice that no white professor could ever teach a course about black people and their history. "Blissfully unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning," Kilson charged, "the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course to a platform for black nationalist propaganda...
From the outset of Social Sciences 5 some of the Negro members were, and remain, convinced that no white scholar could or should teach a course on what they like to call "black history." Blissfully unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning, the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course (and any other such course, for that matter) to a platform for black nationalist propaganda...
...Paranoid Profession The stirring of Madison Avenue's social conscience is still tentative and, to say the least, tardy. Appraising his industry's role in the "great moral issue of our time," Ogilvy & Mather Chairman John Elliott Jr. confesses that "our record is not even average. We bring up the rear. That is a hell of a position for people who consider themselves problem solvers, pacesetters and molders of public opinion." It is also a hell of a position for businessmen. Last year, Negroes spent $30 billion on consumer items, or 6% of the national total...
...GLASS BOOTH is a dramatic offspring of the Adolf Eichmann trial, reviving the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity, and the paranoid personality of the archkiller. The play's best excuse for being is a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity by Donald Pleasence. He is like a neurotic blood relative whom one cannot abide or yet disown. He is as hallucinatorily real as a dream from which one cannot awaken...