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...between Greenwich and the odd end of Greenwich Village, Linda took up with Groovy, who introduced her to the never-never world of drugs. Other hippies sensed that Linda was "not really hip." She had been around only since midsummer, and they considered her a newcomer, a "paranoid chick" who was frightened by the scene but was desperately trying to adapt. No one may ever know the full sequence of sordid events that ended her adaptation, but as police and hippies reconstructed the chain of circumstances that led to the murders of Groovy and Linda, it seemed tragically clear that...
...fine young people have sought happiness without rebellion, exhibitionism or social pressure. Black bigots will scream "Uncle Tom honkey sellout," white bigots will look for "nigger babies," political bigots will see an "L.B.J. deal" and will expose their paranoid vileness to those who view this as a mature event in a maturing country. Three cheers for human power...
...play's deadfall guy, Stanley (James Patterson), a paranoid expianist, is a mildly sinister human cipher and the sole boarder of a dilapidated rooming house at an English seaside resort. His landlady, Meg (Ruth White) cuddles and cossets him; unfailingly, she treats Stanley and her whey-faced husband to the breakfast specialty of the house, corn flakes and fried bread. Stanley has even less stomach for breakfast when he learns that two men named Goldberg (Ed Flanders) and McCann (Edward Winter) have come to the house as roomers...
...prospect of "victory" in Viet Nam [Sept. 22] fills me with dread. It would mean a continuation of the absurd philosophy that war can end war, a victory for militarists who would bring peace to mankind by killing him, and a further retreat into our paranoid delusion that we can spread brotherhood and love by filling the world with soldiers and guns...
...fascination of domestic detail mixed with horror and history-for instance, the dining room table around which her father habitually gathered the Politburo. Svetlana's mother shot herself after a trivial quarrel with Stalin. Her mother's relatives and intimates were victims of her father's paranoid suspicions, and "the life of almost everyone was cut short in some tragic fashion" -prison, firing squad, madness. When the Germans captured Svetlana's half brother Yakov during the war, Stalin refused to exchange him for a Nazi general and Yakov was executed. Svetla na's brother Vasily...