Word: schizoid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undeniable center of attention in a crowded courtroom in Prince George's County, Md. Pleading not guilty on grounds of insanity to the shooting of George Wallace, he smirked, joked, guffawed and occasionally stuck out his tongue as a parade of psychiatrists commented on his schizoid personality. His most dramatic moment came when a diary he had kept while stalking Wallace was read in court; he was so proud of it he had hoped to sell it to Time Inc. for $100,000. It exposed the eerie inner world of the full-time loser determined to become "number...
...concluding section is a droll qualification of the first two. It contains the text of the psychiatrist's report on the case--an exploration of the problem of "schizoid monomamania" which not only undermines the credibility of the foregoing account, but leaves in doubt the very existence of this mathematician Comrade V. A melange of philosophic sallies, this third part of the novel features essays on the history of the stoic movement and the creation cum Laung of an unreal universe in response to an insane environment. In a penetrating investigation of changing criterion of artistic excellence. Park perceptively notes...
...Japan's strengths, like Britain's, is its ethnic homogeneity. But this has bred an almost schizoid attitude?now arrogant, now absurdly humble?and it has led to a distorted, inward-looking perspective. "You have intermarried, you have had a mixing of population," says Diet Member Kiichi Miyazawa. "We have had none of that. We have so little in common with the West...
That moment is an early signal that Medicine Ball Caravan is almost schizoid. One part celebrates the youth culture; another is a crafty send-up of the whole caravan project. There are, of course, the requisite number of elaborate rock concert sequences (B.B. King, Alice Cooper). There are also the usual nude bathing sequences, the dope sequences and the rapping-with-Middle-America sequences...
...terms with her English accent, and Bloom's occultivated consists of stares loaded with blanks. Attenborough is an echo of the project: empty smugness, satisfaction without self. Only Ian Holm, as the passive hero, seems to grasp the thematic apperception: modern man and his society are in a schizoid clash where and brain, instinct and intellect, struggle for primacy. He alone defines ambiguity in the loftiest sense. Clement & Co. founder in the lowest...