Word: paranoia
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This kind of caustic paranoia provides the atmosphere of Pete Davies' The Last Election, in which the government is subsidizing national death and decay. What's really frightening about Davies' 1980s 1984 is that there's no inconceivable, highly organized superplot behind the government funded oppression. His 1984 is formed merely of little pieces of filth from our own culture twisted to their most dangerous extremes...
...have Americans allowed themselves to be subjected to this mass paranoia? Frankly, I don't know. I tuned out of domestic politics after Watergate, thinking the worst was over. It turns out it had just begun. The radicals of the '60s, instead of toppling the establishment, just entrenched...
...point is that Stephen King is an Authentic American Writer. He taps into America as deeply as Elvis Presley did. But where Elvis embodied rollicking good-times sexuality, King sinks his literary teeth into all the insecurity and paranoia of growing up in a world of high school dances and Watergate. Elvis was pop culture; King is its brooding observer: the wallflower with a rapacious imagination. They are different products of the same world--and that same ferocious popular energy has shredded King the way it did Elvis, who sagged into the same commercial black hole Stephen King is edging...
There is, however, considerable danger that a generation of children from non-English speaking homes will lose their chance for educational success if the public paranoia about the dangers of Spanish affects the availability of the optimal early education programs for those children...
...ambition. Three "weird sisters" prophesy to Macbeth (Mark Southern), a Scottish nobleman, that he will one day become king of Scotland. At the urging of Lady Macbeth (Alicia Rubin), the hero decides to help fate along by knocking off the current sovereign, leading to the classic meditation on paranoia, guilt, death and despair. The critical decision for the contemporary director is whether to present these and other traditional themes as best she can or to innovate, to impose new contexts and outline new meanings...