Word: paranoia
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...price of admission. A visiting tourist pays Juan Antonio's way, but he is worried his friends will label him a jinetero, or gigolo. He is also worried that the police will arrest him for consorting with foreigners, so he asks that his real name not be used. His paranoia is so pervasive that he finds it hard to believe he can wander the club floor without being stopped...
...many ways, the fear that I'm being used by neoconservatives reflects a paranoia that has always been part of black life, and it is part of the life of any oppressed group, a paranoia about what you say in front of the Man because he'll use it against you. One of the things I stand for more deeply than anything else is that I do not see the white man as all that powerful, all that smart. Blacks really need to begin to understand that these people do not control our fate as much we think they...
...Philadelphia family's paranoia and violence, you guys were sometimes known as "the gang that couldn't shoot straight...
...paranoia, Nixon's own ship was anything but tight. For that, he had no one to blame but himself. He was the one who ordered the installation of concealed recording devices in the Oval Office, the Executive Office Building and Camp David, yet he continued to carry on crude, incoherent and ultimately incriminating conversations. As late as April 25, 1973, well after the smoking-gun conversations about stonewalling and hush money, Nixon was still congratulating himself on the secret system. "I'm damn glad we have it, aren't you?" he crowed...
...vile anti-Semitism, but then again, the Hebrew bible advises atrocious punishments for women who grab men's genitals and even commands Jews to commit genocide against the Amalekites. We should no more revile the apostles than the prophets. For Dershowitz, who sees everything through the lens of his paranoia, any whiff of anti-Semitism disqualifies all manner of good deeds...