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...during the hysteria Senator Joseph McCarthy was generating, Hofstadter in his Age of Reform pointed to some of the early agrarian, Populist roots of McCarthyism-a native, not a foreign blight. He followed with a full-scale study of the history of American anti-intellectualism, and essays on the paranoid style in American politics...
...spirit. Goin' Down the Road is closer to the intimacies of Marty than to the paranoid swagger of Easy Rider. It is weakest when its score laments "just another victim of the rainbow." It is persuasive and forceful when it studies the social pathology of urban outpatients, men who chivy and moon, boasting of the rural splendors that they once fled, dreaming of the Big Strike, and buying color television sets on time...
...even Nixon's anti-Communist ideology. He is somewhere between believing in the essential rightness of the war and recognizing that American interest requires its liquidation. His effort to scale down the war may seem imperceptible-indeed he still clings to the rhetoric of intervention and to the paranoid concern for national prestige-but that only makes his ambivalence about the war more interesting. The rhetoric of intervention makes for bad diplomacy because it sacrifices national interest for national prestige. The President must be made to see the difference...
Penalties hurt the Crimson all afternoon. "We were paranoid about getting "penalized." Farneti said. "It cut down on our aggressiveness...
Hitler's uniqueness lay in the monstrous size and paranoid consistency of his dreams. By wedding neoclassicism to his Kampf, he killed the style for good. Dictators (and even democrats) of the future will need to find another...