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...focused instead on a goal that Red China's rulers condemn as pure capitalistic decadence-making life more pleasant for the people. Throughout the world, Peking seeks to incite "wars of national liberation." Yet in Red China itself, noted Columnist Joseph Alsop, the regime's paranoid leaders have become so distrustful of the younger generation that they have shipped all members of the three upper classes at pace-setting Peking University to Sinkiang, the Chinese Siberia, "to improve their minds by a period of hard labor...
...million people to have a nervous breakdown, Communist China is perilously close to the breaking point. Its craving for victory in Viet Nam, where it has staked its revolutionary reputation on the success of "the war of national liberation," has been frustrated by the stepped-up American commitment. Traditionally paranoid about foreigners, China has become more isolated and sealed off than any other Communist state (including Stalin's Russia). Led by aging, ethnocentric men with little personal knowledge of the world beyond, it feels encircled and threatened on every side. When it directs its voice to the outside world...
...Indonesia on a basis of economic and social progress. This is a goal which Sukarno, for all his chauvinism, failed to achieve. The choice of books to be reviewed, two interpretations of the Vietnam conflict by war correspondents Robert Shaplen and Marguerite Higgins and Richard Hofstadter's essays on paranoid American extremism reflect the appropriate and timely taste of the editors. The reviewers give good summaries of the books as well as intelligent comments on their contemporary significance...
...PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS by Richard Hofstadter. 315 pages. Knopf...
...morning to 7 at night, every weekend. It was murder. It was fantastic. I lived on my nerves." To coach Samantha, Wyler called in Character Actress Kathleen Freeman, who not only forced Samantha to struggle with the role, but hyped it up further with horror stories about a paranoid schizophrenic relative until Samantha was thoroughly psyched and having nightmares. The turning point came when Samantha was watching Stamp sing a merry-mad cockney song and, as she watched, a tear came slowly down her cheek. "We were both elated," Coach Freeman recalls. "That was what we both needed. She knew...