Word: paranoia
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...Carl E. Taylor, professor of international health at the Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, said this week that too much publicity about the visa question will only increase Saudi "paranoia" that it is the Jewish community that controls American universities...
...happily at the mouth about (punishment for exceeding quota: a month at Judith Crist's movie camp with continuous showings of At Long Last Love) M. would be a picture to stand by. Fritz Lang's direction turns the cinema into images which fuse with one's own societal paranoia. There are a whole list of things which you may never do again after seeing M and a few of them are: whistle the Peer Gynt Suite, allow a kid to walk to school without an armed guard, see a floating balloon and not wonder where its owner...
...involved in the assassination of Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Since quoting from the foreign press is a common Soviet way of expressing official views, the repetition of this patently absurd accusation was a measure of how far the Kremlin is prepared to go to exploit Middle Eastern paranoia for its own advantage...
...throes of freshman paranoia, I could not convince myself that it was I, and not my father's "position," who was responsible for the thick envelope on April 16, 1972. It helped of course to have a roommate from High Point, North Carolina who was experiencing the similar agonies of "geographical distribution," it all seemed worth it, though, when spring came and the housing situation looked bad. I thought for sure that with a little string pulling ("Master's choice" was still barely alive) I could beat the odds and get into my first choice House. I experienced a sense...
...Then reckon in Fuseli's eccentricities, which though irreligious were akin to Blake's own, and it seems clear why the younger painter spared Fuseli the contempt he felt for nearly every other English artist of his day. Fuseli was not "normal." His images are full of paranoia. He boasted that the Devil had sat to him many times. He painted and drew like a man possessed. But the intensity of that possession was more important for Blake than its naive fetishism. Energy was energy, and so Blake wrote...