Word: paranoia
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...Washington. "A curious blend of arrogance and insecurity, haughtiness and self-pity" is how Isaacson and Thomas describe Kennan. Yet they have no doubts about his unmatched foresight. He predicted the Sino- Soviet split and accurately saw that Russia would continue to be a threat because "its perverse paranoia and historical expansionism had been abetted and amplified, but not caused, by the Marxist doctrine." Kennan gave the Wise Men a persuasive tool; when they wanted to argue for an increased U.S. role in international affairs, they invoked the Red menace. It was an effective ploy, but it also proved...
...return, if briefly, to the more familiar realm of Twilight Zone twists in 'dentity Crisis. Jane (Marjorie Ingall) has a problem. She is a sane person in an insane world. Fortunately, psychotherapy has a cure. Everybody plays insanity soberly and satisfactorily straight in this one. And Jane's sullen paranoia is relatively refreshing, even if the play's conclusion is somewhat unsatisfactory...
...like to disagree with Hatch on this point more than I do. But there's an element of truth beneath his commie paranoia. "The fact is," said Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), "a crisis was gotten through with reasonable dignity." Weeeell...yeah, in a way. Nick Daniloff is home, prominent Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov and his wife are free, and the heads of the two superpowers will meet to discuss arms control...
...research for the National Cocaine Hotline. Unlike heroin users, who vomit and shake when they withdraw, crack addicts show few immediate physical signs of dependency -- at least at first. But they feel an overpowering yearning for more. Bouts of depression and irritability can lead to deep depression and paranoia. "I was afraid to be with it and afraid to be without it," says Kurt Bolick, a 28-year-old oilfield-services reporter in Houston. "I was afraid of myself, I was afraid of life, I was afraid of everything. I was afraid, period...
...paintings are the same. Helga is another Christina in another world, this time more in tune with the essential earth than before, possibly a reflection of a more sagacious and older Wyeth's point of view. With age comes wisdom but also occasionally paranoia. Perhaps 69-year-old Wyeth felt that if he never said a word about the paintings while he was still alive, they would be misunderstood. Perhaps our castigation of the artist for his mute revelation is too harsh and premature. The calm and gentleness of his hidden secrets excuses almost anything...