Word: paranoia
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...shoulder, expecting the worst. "I had read about the persecutions of Mormons in Illinois [where Joseph Smith was pulled from a jail and killed by an angry mob], and I kind of expected a little persecution," she says with a nervous smile that hardly conceals her embarassment at this paranoia. The oldest of seven children ("people always joke about Mormons and Catholics," she adds), Bybee chose Radcliffe over BYU, her parent's favorite. "They were afraid I would fall in love with and marry someone from the East." The fear, she explains, was only geographical; they did not want...
...surely remember which of the two our taxes support, or do you deliberately desire to promote paranoia...
...largely ineffective. It has not caused meaningful change in the CRR, and the organization continues to function and discipline students despite the boycott. Third, change in the CRR might be more plausible today, given the present atmosphere on campus, than during the period of student-faculty/administration antagonism and paranoia which marked the time of the group's formation. There is obviously a need for change...
...metaphor for the position of the American public. Both take the same attitude: they don't believe that it has happened; they can't conceive of the president having been involved; and fimally, they both wish it would go away. A Woman's View clearly illuminates the intense paranoia, secrecy, and save-your-own-skin aspect of the Watergate White House. Mo says that no two men within the top positions in the administration could depend on or confide in one another. From the moment Nixon realized that Watergate was going to be something more than "a little problem...
...supportive. If we pull together, as in the antiwar movement, we can win. If we don't--we lose. In Nazi Germany and junta Chile, the fascists were and are impartial--they killed socialists, feminists, and gay people by the thousands. With this in mind, it's realism, not paranoia, to say that if we don't all hang together, we'll all hang separately. Diana Sperling, HR Women's Center and HR NAM Womens' Caucus David Price, HR NAM Equal Admissions Committee