Word: paranoia
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...What Rubenstein reveals is that in the Soviet Union, abuses of human rights are not isolated incidents. There are day-to-day harassment, searches, interrogations, interference with phones, psychological confinement, separation of families, inhuman treatment of prisoners. Often the regime is purposely inconsistent creating an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia as the KGB arrests those not directly involved the movement as well as the leaders to keep all off balance...
...knowing what to expect from the strangers they live with, Americans begin to marinate in paranoia and suppressed rage. Crime combines fatally with inflation to subvert the old American hope, the idea that virtue, saving, obeying the law are rewarded, not punished. Psychologically intensifying the horrific reality of crime, the local TV news teams project it directly into the American fantasy life, the air filled with such vivid playlets of violence and death and fire and gore that children begin to grow up thinking that the world outside the front door is profoundly menacing-not the old America...
...Killer' will convert Harvard's tension into paranoia," Walter T. Burr '84, the game's on-campus organizer, said yesterday. Burr and his roommates Michael G. Ereli '84 and Richard D. Hegdal '84 began publicizing the game Thursday, distributing fliers in the Freshman Union and in freshman dorms...
...Patriotic War was only 35 years ago and we have had to rebuild Eastern Europe and provide for our defense first," is the common rebuttal to any attack on the Soviets' ailing economy. But in choosing this method to justify their regime, the Politburo is forced to continue the paranoia and xenophobia of a war atmosphere. The enemy is NATO, China and the CIA. TASS depicts the United States as obsessed with disrupting the Soviet way of life. The Soviets are told that we spend twice what they do on armaments, and most believe...
...Right reads like a hundred direct mail letters stacked an inch high and stuffed with selfrighteous indignation and paranoia. Its grab-bag stocks every conservative phrase since Great Britain wallowed in socialism, FDR sold Eastern Europe up the Volga, and the federal government destroyed the American family. In it we learn; "Separation of church and state...does not mean separation of God and government"; "Most of the liberal leaders are dead, retired, or just too tired to compete in the demanding decade before us"; and "History shows that military strength is the best way to prevent war with an aggressor...