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...peek into the frustration of a onetime lumberjack hooked by big-city humdrum, was acted by Ben Gazzara with such manneristic Method (except during one tender love scene played with Lee Grant as his wife) that the poverty-stricken dreamer often appeared a little paranoid. In The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Actor Thomas Chalmers was ruggedly convincing as an oldtimer shoe salesman who hides his fear of death and lack of security behind passionate tirades against the new world's lack of manners and tradition, almost managed to mask the fact that the play was little more...
...from Wanda Landowska to Wladziu Valentine Liberace. Within that range, the smaller companies count as a bestseller any disk that sells more than 15,000 copies, while with the larger outfits a hit record may approach half a million (the industry guards exact sales figures with almost paranoid intensity, with each company claiming that all others are cheating). Here, in order of popularity over the last decade, are the top five classical LP sellers of the leading classical companies...
...Haiti's Dr. Louis Mars reported that in his country schizophrenia accounts for one-third of all psychoses (again a low proportion compared to the West), with the paranoid form most common. Haiti's peasants rarely develop schizophrenia, but those who do, show in their delusions "a cultural African content with the gods and devils of the old black continent." The disease is most often seen among the economically and culturally unstable fringes of the middle class in the towns, and these people in their mental disturbances "evoke the Christian god, electricity, radio and other elements of Western...
...classify Russell as a wise old scholar and Eastland and Talmadge as racists? They're three of a kind, right down the line. Can all this ridiculous hullabaloo be masking the deep paranoid fear of the Southern whites that, given equal rights, the Negro might attempt to rectify generations of persecution...
This message was but one item in a fat file of captured German documents, the tenth volume of which was published last week simultaneously in the U.S. and Britain. Like many another message directed to the prancing paranoid who planned to rule the world from Berlin, it revealed not so much historical fact as the fantastic lengths of self-deception followed by Hitler's ever-toadying diplomats in their constant effort to tell the Führer what he wanted to hear...