Word: schizoids
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...father image is only an illusion. The Roman collar is as big a put-on as his accent and his wig. Under them is an effete, seething schizoid (Rod Steiger) who can kill when he assumes an identity other than his own. But who is he? New York's police assign a green, gawky Jewish detective (George Segal) to find the answer. After eyeballing the first victim, Segal promptly advances a pop-psych theory to the press: the murderer, he argues, is a mother hater who takes Mom for a slay ride every time he garrotes a middle-aged...
...batch of soul-scraping poems published in the Russian journal Znamya. The poems derive from his six-week tour of the U.S. in 1966, and one in particular-Monologue of a Blue Fox on an Alaskan Animal Farm-seems an especially bold statement of the rebel's own schizoid loyalties. The fox shrills for freedom from its cage, where it is held because of the value of its fur. Then it discovers that the door to its pen has been left open, only to make a further horrible discovery...
Miserable & Mad. Indeed, the slightly schizoid Romantic preoccupation with nature and the supernatural, physical reality and psychological mystery, rooted itself easily in English soil. Swiss-born John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) emigrated to England at 22 and took up painting with the encouragement of Sir Joshua Reynolds. His ghoulish portrayals of Shakespearean heroes and fantastic chimeras, such as The Nightmare, predated Goya's grotesques by more than a decade and were immensely popular on the Continent. In their desire to get back to nature, the English Romantics also abandoned the ruins of Italy in favor of the English countryside...
...This schizoid sort of position is one in which more and more young Negroes are finding themselves these days, and the situation is reflected in several of Chandler's pictures that carry the title "Split Personality." Particularly impressive, too, is the small, subdued painting called "Many Faces of the Black Man," which calls to mind a poem of Dunbar...
...community organizer in a free society must be a multiple schizoid," Saul D. Alinsky, organizer extraordinaire, said in a lecture last night at Hunt Hall...