Word: paranoia
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...that ludicrous, leave them alone. They'll go away like all ludicrous theories do. When people start telling The New York Times that they lynched someone or stole someone's food after reading The Selfish Gene, the matter will have to be considered further. But for now the rampant paranoia and vigilanteism at this university must cease. It is the other side of the fascist coin...
Everybody from Gerald Ford to hard-lining Senator Henry Jackson agrees with this. (A corollary, held by several senior policy experts, is that Carter underestimated the extent to which paranoia is a factor in Soviet strategic thinking.) Ford told a student group at the University of Michigan: "I believe there was too much public rhetoric" be fore and during the Moscow meeting. Jackson told newsmen: "Everything is out in the sunshine, and that was something new for the Soviets. The style took them aback...
Patient Cop. One likes the movie for refusing to be yet another example of the paranoia and the senselessness of the times in which we live. It is as patient as Martin Beck (well played by Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) in linking the final mass violence to the brutal, suspensefully executed murder with which the film begins. It is full of lightly sketched details that give Beck, his team of detectives, the whole cop milieu weight and depth almost subliminally, in the manner of a good novel. More than that the picture is familiar and knowing about its setting, Stockholm. Finally...
...homosexuals in a 1963 study. William Horstman found similar lack of difference in MMPI scores nine years later. Mark Freedman reported similar outcomes in lesbian response to the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Using similar personality measures, Siegelman (1972) found no significant differences, and C.G. Watson found no evidence for the paranoia hypothesis in homosexuality. Research by Brenda Dickey found the sexual role-conflict model to be unsubstantiated...
...warning. The narrator becomes convinced that everyone around him is crazy. He searches for a mission among a maze of people, but stops communicating with them, just as Pentagon Three once cut itself off from the outside world. The first part of the book's warning is about paranoia. The narrator also passes up his one chance to get away from the corridors after corridors. Once he found a way out of them, a door into sunlight. He should have run hard and far and dove into a cold mountain stream. And returned, if he could then see a reason...