Word: paranoia
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...most part Lenny's paranoia was justified. One of the New York assistant district attorneys who tried the case once told one of Lenny's lawyers: "I feel terrible about Bruce. I watched him gradually fall apart. It's the only thing I did in Hogan's [D.A. Frank Hogan] office that I'm really ashamed of. We all knew what we were doing. We used the law to kill...
However, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, challenges this opinion, maintaining that there is no racist barrier to his authority, and says he feels that "blacks who think they are powerless are suffering from pathological paranoia...
Brooklyn-born Robert Stone, 37, spent time in New Orleans and San Francisco during the early '60s as an "active participant" in the counterculture. Some of these experiences spilled put in A Hall of Mirrors (1967), a surrealistic vision of a New Orleans rife with political paranoia. This second novel confirms the talent betrayed in A Hall of Mirrors and reveals added discipline. The book has its flaws, of course. It occasionally luxuriates in baroque bleakness for its own sake. For example, Converse's addled mother is gratuitously trotted on like a lab specimen. The characters' motives...
Nixon's "peculiar paranoia" made him decide to move the case against Ellsberg for his release of top-secret Pentagon Papers into the "court of public opinion," Boudin said...
TIME'S issue of Oct. 14 says: "As Johnson neared death, [Doris] Kearns reports, bitterness and psychic pain led him deep into fantasy and to the edge of paranoia." Lyndon Johnson suffered a heart attack in April 1972, and although I am not a "psychohistorian," I believe that for the nine months remaining to him he sensed that his time was running out. But bitterness, fantasy and paranoia have no relation to the activities I witnessed in that period, and I saw a great deal of him then; those activities were of a man at peace with himself...