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What does this all mean? Well, it means there are people here waiting for you, waiting with a passion--for what is not exactly clear. Now is the time to get paranoid, so that when you get here, you are so numb from paranoia that you can be yourself. Have some jokes prepared--popular ones this year are likely to be, "Hey, did you hear Julius Caesar's in our class?" or, "Hey, I just saw a piece of graffiti saying `Napoleon Bonaparte '84.'" Don't bother memorizing your SAT score; just tell anyone rude enough to ask that...
...vocational colleges that were characteristic of the 1920s and 1930s. Since the younger men began their careers around the time of Stalin's death in 1953, they are likely to be less fearful and more self-assertive than their predecessors, whose lives were under constant threat from the paranoid dictator. Nearly all the newcomers will have had more exposure to the West...
...arguments are familiar; this book, a compendium of renovated Cold War polemics, will change no minds. Those who have looked with favor on Nixon and his brand of geopolitics in the past will not be disappointed; those who have not will find it a paranoid and self-justifying comic book, tediously rehashing old arguments and hair-raising tales of the Red Menace circa 1980, weighed down by an endless--and pretentious--string of quotes from Karl Marx to Richard Pipes...
...where . . . when somebody came to his house, he would open the door with a gun pointed on them. He got really paranoid and spooky . . . shooting spiders off the wall...
...lines were later dubbed by James Earl Jones, the voice of Vader in both movies. "I don't know much about what happens in the picture," admits Prowse. "I have no idea what occurs in a sequence before I appear or after I leave the screen. They were paranoid, really paranoid, about security...