Word: paranoia
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...things to rival the inflation rate is the rising paranoia index. Need anyone be reminded of the fears and confusions that hang over from recent assassinations, wars and political scandals? It is a time that has caused -if not an actual power vacuum-at least an intense low-pressure area that readily attracts conspiracy theorists, occult mongers and alert topical novelists like Robert Lipsyte...
...despite the accent on the first syllable, my name is clearly a repository for the English word 'alert,' as if the name is a thousand-year-old clay receptacle with paranoia curled up in the shape of a child's skeleton inside. I myself have always been quietly alert...
This suit cannot be allowed to dry up due to a lack of funds. It must be vigorously prosecuted. "Paranoia strikes deep," a popular song says. And since the government is now on the defensive as a result of Watergate, this is a good time to seek to lessen the paranoia it engenders. Political justice must apply evenly to all groups, not just to members of the major parties but to Chicanos, blacks, American Indians, women, small political parties and others who have organized to defend their rights or change society and who have received a slot on some official...
...coup installed Colonel George Papadopoulos as premier of Greece only a month before the national elections scheduled for May 28. His reason for stymieing the elections echoed a familiar sort of paranoia--he was simply trying to remove the "communist threat." Oddly enough, contemporary polls predicted that the political Left would control only 10 per cent of the vote; it was the Center Union party, led by liberal former Prime Minister George Papandreou, which seemed on the verge of an easy victory. Three years later, Papadopoulos betrayed his own rationale in an interview with a British journalist, who reported that...
...otherwise would be in reformatories, prisons, or insane asylums are heroes. So are the Farah strikers and the California farm workers. All these people deal with suffering. All these people open possibilities for the future. They are heroes even if only on one cold night they defy the prevailing paranoia and help a suffering human being...