Word: paranoia
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...editorial (transcripts are on file at WRAL and the University of North Carolina) Helms expressed a recurring paranoia about the nation's journalistic Establishment: he called Walter Cronkite a "hysterical crybaby" who "has been a participant in a vast ultraliberal mechanism tirelessly dedicated to brainwashing the American public." He was on to welfare parasitism years before the Great Society: "Extreme care should be taken that public assistance is not made a mockery by those who would freeload off their fellow man." In 1965: "The civil rights movement, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King calls it, has had an uncommon number...
...Soviet perception of the Minuteman debate, at least as expressed by official spokesmen in a series of interviews in Moscow, is a mixture of righteous indignation, countercharges and carefully reasoned assurances. "These wild scenarios by American armchair strategists breed suspicion and paranoia and serve to justify the arms race," says Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee...
With pride, with paranoia, he twitches his head from side to side. He becomes an eagle, the odds-on favorite to win God's most majestic sound. It may be Sunday morning in Rockport village in the year 1981, but now it is also the first day of creation. When Parents' unsuspecting eagle-with a thrush stowed away on its back-lifts off majestically at the upward wave of the storyteller's hand, the audience lifts off too, out the window of the Opera House, above the sun-dappled boats lying at anchor in Rockport harbor, beyond...
President Reagan should have reminded Prime Minister Begin that his paranoia only strengthens the belief that Israel is, in the minds of its enemies, war prone. Until Israel is guided by cooler and saner leadership, the U.S. should not send it so much as a firecracker...
...dark and destructive side. The euphoric lift, the feeling of being confident and on top of things that comes from a few brief snorts, is often followed by a letdown; regular use can induce depression, edginess and weight loss. As usage increases, so does the danger of paranoia, hallucinations and a totally "strung out" physical collapse, not to mention a devastation of the nasal membrane (see box page 61). And usage does tend to increase. Says one initiate: "After one hit of cocaine I feel like a new man. The only problem is, the first thing the new man wants...