The 1960s' Paranoid Style

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 20:08:00 CST 2008


"... the critic Morris Dickstein on the temptations of the 1960s'
paranoid style—'a sense at once joyful and threatening that things are
not what they seem, that reality is mysteriously overorganized and can
be decoded if only we attend to the hundred little hints and byways
that beckon to us.'"

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Presence-of-Mind-Mary-Pinchot-Meyer-200812.html




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