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...LOEB PRODUCTION of Marat/Sade brings out most of the play's ambiguities. As Marat, Thomas Myers carefully outlines the transition from the asylum's paranoid to its demagogue, calling from his tub to the mobs of Paris. His is not an easy role: it is difficult to play a strong character whose body is so weak, and few Marats really compete with their counterpart Sade. As Sade, George Miller is the clear star of the Loeb show, presenting his cynical vision of humanity with great stage presence...
Rosen quotes a local psychoanalyst who defines psychobabble as "just a way of using candor in order not to be candid" or, in other words, a vocabulary of terms lifted from psycho-analytic theory and popularized into meaninglessness. Think, for example, how often you use the words paranoid, fixation, neurotic, depressed, or manic when describing acquaintances. Such catch-phrases should be seen as "the expression not of a victory of de-humanization but as its latest and very subtlest victory over...
Time out for a little nose-thumbing. In addition to the nickname sham, Dartmouth for years has been nothing short of paranoid that the school is not considered one of the "Big 3" of the Ivy League. They've done everything up there: added a soft ice cream machine, went sort of coed, even as far as moving the cows that supply the school's dairy products out of the basketball arena...
...TIMES Arms Bazaar may seem to be a conspiracy book. Business and political figures from Herbert Kalmbach to Prince Bernhard of Holland are involved in one way or another. But Sampson is not paranoid, merely thorough. The arms trade, with its manufacturers so dependent on large-sale, precarious government contracts, is one of the most lucrative and integral to the western world...
Apart from Pavlov and his dogs, Soviet psychiatry is perhaps best known for the breakthrough discovery of "sluggish schizophrenia" accompanied by "paranoid delusions of reforming society." This is a mysterious ailment, usually requiring sudden incarceration, that often strikes political dissenters in the U.S.S.R. Since the late '50s, when Khrushchev announced that "there are no political prisoners, only persons of unsound mind," the Soviets have relied on tame psychiatrists to label troublemakers insane...