Word: paranoia
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...first novel, V. (1963), with its fusion of paranoia and surrealism, provided one of the most impressive literary debuts of the decade. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), shorter and more straightforward than its predecessor, won more converts to the growing Pynchon cult. And the encyclopedic Gravity's Rainbow (1973) stunned both critics and readers as the most ambitious American novel since Moby Dick...
...basketball champion is a resident of the East, and a private school at that, Georgetown University of Washington, D.C. Whether the emphasis is on private, school or basketball, nobody does it better than Georgetown, where students cheer in Greek and Latin (Hoya saxa! What rocks!) under the banner HOYA PARANOIA...
That irresistible phrase Hoya Paranoia refers mainly to a squabble over press access, an unremarkable circumstance in Washington. John Thompson, the coach, is too concerned with his players' needs to worry about their biographers' convenience; also, college basketball cannot bear too much investigative reporting. Humor is strained more than truth is stretched when Las Vegas Coach Jerry Tarkanian jokes that he loves transfer students because "their cars are already paid for." At Boston College, Georgetown's conference companion and Jesuit colleague, a star player who flunked out of school last year was quietly re-enrolled in night...
When the United States first charged the Soviets with breaking treaties banning chemical weapons, many might have believed it to be just another example of the Reagan Administration's excessive communist paranoia. But numerous other governments, scientists, and liberal officials like Solarz, have joined the chorus of denunciation, and the available evidence--at least to the layman--seems compelling that the Soviets are up to no good...
...Union. In response, the Russians might raise their own alert status, and that could cause a further escalation on our side. The news would exacerbate the existing climate of anxiety and anger and fear. Moreover, the Soviet leaders might very well conclude that the U.S., in a flight of paranoia, believed that the U.S.S.R. was involved in the attempt to assassinate the President. Why would we alert our military forces if a lone psychotic had been responsible...