Word: paranoia
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...Republican paranoia reflects the pervasive combination of fear/reverence that politicians have acquired for television. It can make candidates look better than usual ("I want a kinder, gentler nation") or unusually silly ("Pearl Harbor day, September 7..."). But stooping to censorship pressure tactics is a dangerous, needless precedent...
...playwright Martin Sherman's Bent can be read as a parable for the anti-gay paranoia in this age of AIDS. (It is thus appropriate that this production's proceeds will go to a local AIDS action committee.) But its literal subject, the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, stands up well enough on its own dramatically...
...flip side of the optimism of the immigrants' story is the paranoia that the mass of Americans' harbor toward those who are different. As quickly as they can be stirred by the story of the son of Greek immigrants, they can be frightened when reminded that he is, after all, not named Smith, Jones or even Bush...
...Mixing real indignation with forced humor, Dan Quayle does his best to shift attention away from his past. -- As fires burn out of control in Yellowstone, experts debate whether the flames are friendly or not. -- A former aide to L. B. J. suggests that Johnson had fearsome episodes of paranoia...
...writes that Johnson was at times literally crazed and that his episodic madness helped propel the U.S. into "a needless tragedy of such immense consequences ((Viet Nam)) that, even now, the prospects for a restorative return remain in doubt." He brazenly diagnoses Johnson's large eccentricities as "incursions of paranoia," which led to leaps "into unreason" that "infected the entire presidential institution...