Word: paranoia
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...band set-up is clearly the harsher of the two, as Epps paranoia for offensive segments has gone to ridiculous extremes. Although millions of theatergoers over the past 300 years have been exposed to the line in Shakespeare's Macbeth by the pricking of my thumbs," the dean felt the phrase too risqué for the football crowd. He asked the band to change the line, originally a direct quote in the Cornell script, to "by the twitching of my thumbs...
...downing of an unarmed airliner by the U.S.S.R. emphasizes the degree of the Soviet paranoia and the folly of pur placing provocative first-strike Pershing and cruise missiles on its borders. A situation will be created involving nuclear weapons that will threaten millions of lives. Only by establishing better relations and easing tensions with the U.S.S.R. will we avoid more air tragedies and the ultimate catastrophe, World...
...said that it regarded the shooting down of KAL Flight 007 as an act the Soviets would never knowingly commit, that it was an unfortunate tragedy. This approach would have presented some chance of eliciting an apology and compensation. The line our Government took only fueled the Soviets' paranoia...
...truculence of the official Soviet response (Andrei Gromyko assured the world that the Soviet Union was quite prepared to shoot down the next violator of its airspace) led to a rounding up of the usual suspects: Soviet feelings of inferiority, hypersensitivity, paranoia, suspiciousness, what have you. These explanations do not satisfy. For what was so stunning about the Soviet reponse was its lack of feeling. What sent a chill through the world (as even more ruthless Soviet behavior like the invasion of Afghanistan had not) was the undertone of stony incomprehension in the Soviet response to pleas for some acknowledgment...
...Russians are a threat to this country and to democratic interests world-wide and it doesn't take a hateful mind to realize that Russian actions since 1945 are not just a product of U.S. provoked paranoia. If liberals in this country would quit taking it upon themselves to defend the argument that the U.S. is the aggressor in the world arena, then the U.S. could begin to discuss the much more important issue of what posture it will take towards the Russians...