Word: paranoia
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...majority of letters are written from sanitariums that Kafka inhabited with restless, despairing frequency during his last years. The eerie, lucent prose quickens into something like paranoia. Kafka fights for sleep: "Enemies everywhere ... Two hundred Prague schoolchildren have been quartered here. A hellish noise, a scourge of humanity." Not quite whining, he painfully records the rise and fall of his temperature, the coughs, the catarrhs, the betrayals in his body, the bats in his soul. "The phantoms of the night," he says, "have tracked me down." Earlier: "The physical illness is only an overflow of the spiritual illness." Kafka...
...allow marijuana to be prescribed when doctors feel that the symptoms call for it. Some day marijuana may reduce the suffering of many patients and even save the lives of others. This will not require a new medical breakthrough, but only a modest effort to overcome the vestiges of paranoia from another...
...when we turn our attention to the suffering world outside, to the structure of our intransigent school, or to the University's complicity in war and racism--when we turn to politics--the University, afflicted with learning paranoia, fights us. They did so with stalling, and ultimately with clubs, in 1969. They do so in a mild way now, by making conciliatory gestures, but not acting, over southern Africa (no moral imperative may influence investment, which serves learning). And they will do so anew when once again student interests broaden...
...files released last week, which weigh 60 Ibs. and cost $4,000.10 per set, also reveal-at times unwittingly-an FBI afflicted with paranoia, obsessed with counterespionage, and out of the control of the Justice Department. Within 48 hours of the assassination. J. Edgar Hoover sanctioned the refusal of his underlings to follow an order from his superio, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. "Properly handled." commented Hoover after a bureau official had dismissed a Kennedy request as "unnecessary and undesirable." The FBI spied on the Texas judge who presided over the Jack Ruby trial, on the director of Central Intelligence...
...hoped I was leaving anti-gay paranoia behind me when I moved from my intensely conservative and moralistic home town to liberal, enlightened Harvard. But with a cynicism about Harvard one would be more likely to expect from a jaded senior, I asked my journal just before freshman week, "Did I graduate into a more mature world, or just a smarter...