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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Jones' own behavior growing more paranoid and the sudden presence of the Congressman and the press, some experts believe there was almost a psychological inevitability to the disaster. "Following that type of fragmentation, there was only one thing left," says Dr. Stanley Cath, a Boston psychiatrist. "They could return to the world of reality, but they would have had to face their own inadequacies, the world they had already discarded, the families they had already discarded. So for them, death was preferable because death had already been proclaimed rebirth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Why People Join | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

THIS SOMEWHAT paranoid view of the world is not irrelevant to what is wrong with the Moynihan school of thought about international politics. By now, after we've witnessed some of the missteps and inconsistencies of the Carter administration's human rights policies, it should be evident that the attempt to translate values into policy must involve a careful process. It should mean distinguishing between values, deciding which ones we want to emphasize, and then examining how each might be rendered concrete in ways that promise lasting effects. This, in turn, requires a sensitivity to other peoples, and the specificity...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: A Complex Place | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

...question no one can answer is annoyingly simple: Why? Because the psychotic, power-mad and paranoid preacher they followed from California to South America told them the time had come? Because someone--apparently acting on Jones's orders--murdered a Congressman and a couple of journalists? When Masada's people did away with themselves, there was something approaching a good reason, but that essential motivation just cannot be found in the Jonesville case...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: A World Gone Berserk | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

...give a fig for the shipyard. "I don't care about the money at all. I have put that shipyard up my nose ten times over." In cocaine, of course--Chet is what Raymond Chandler used to call a cokey, and Panama's prose comes to you through the paranoid fog of a rolled Benjamin Franklin...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Caribbean Syndicalist Novel | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

Apted's actors love the English language as much as the playwright does. The spare, precise dialogue practically detonates from their lips. Bates, playing the paranoid husband, is the quintessential Pinter menace: if looks could kill, the rest of the cast would be dead. He is well countered by McDowell in the role of a serpentine climber who may or may not be sleeping with both a male housemate and Bates' wife. As McDowell's keeper, a prissy old couturier, Olivier has The Collection's only openly emotional scene. It is a shocker. When he falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: One Hit, Two Misses | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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