Word: paranoia
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...returned reluctantly to my first reading period, arguably the most terrifying weeks of freshman year. My neglected coursework loomed before me, and my classmates' all too evident paranoia drove me from the Union. I never went back--it was too loud and the food sucked. I drank soup in my room, worked and fended off an inexplicable herd of admirers who had suddenly materialized when I didn't want to be bothered. As a maniacally drew up my schedules for studying, I discovered to my horror that I had three exams in three days. Had I read the catalogue more...
Moving in will be a mob scene. If such situations upset you, bring plenty of Valium. Dope is usually effective, but may encourage your paranoia...
...pursuit of a response. U.S. intelligence officials did produce evidence that Havana has supplied some weapons to the rebels, several of whom were trained in guerrilla tactics in Cuba. Nonetheless, reports TIME Washington Correspondent William Drozdiak, "the obsessive concern with Cuban involvement struck some OAS members as blind paranoia. Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica even discerned a more sinister motive in the ill-substantiated attacks: to find an excuse for robbing the Sandinistas of their victory by sending in the Marines to set up a new pro-American government in which the guerrillas would have little say. That, of course...
Stalin's own dotage and death in 1953 were marked by a macabre irony. His last purge was to have been a mammoth pogrom. The pretext was the spurious charge that the Kremlin doctors, most of them Jews, were poisoning political luminaries in their care. In his terminal paranoia, Stalin came to believe in the plot and suspected that his personal physician was a British agent. As blood vessels began to burst inside his own brain, plunging him into a prolonged agony, the dictator would not let any doctor near him on his deathbed...
...story has its promising aspects. The protagonist (Roy Scheider, an actor who deserves something more than merely serviceable roles) is a shaky employee of the FBAP-the Federal Bureau of Advanced Paranoia, that usually unnamed, entirely fictional dirty-tricks agency that turns up with distressing regularity in recent movies. The reason Roy is shaky is that a bunch of baddies have killed his wife while aiming at him. Discharged from a rest home, he gets the strong impression that his bosses no longer have any use for him, and indeed we see them running his dossier through the paper shredder...