Word: paranoia
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Resident Russian correspondents in at least three East European capitals, Warsaw, Bucharest and Belgrade, have a pet theory about the Watergate affair, which is both unintentionally amusing as a bit of Byzantine fantasy and also revealing about the paranoia that still often underlies the Soviet view of the world. The theory goes like this...
...Fear. And then, turning upon it enraged, with instincts born out of the furtive life of the underground mind, he pounces on the most visceral and alarming rhythms of the age. He embodies our most hysterical fantasies and fears, and gives expression to the outer limits of our paranoia and despair...
HENRY ROSOVSKY, Taussig Research Professor of Economics, has become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the end of a transition period. Under the tight leadership of John T. Dunlop, the Faculty has moved from a state of paranoia in the aftermath of two years of strikes to a state of limbo. The Faculty and the University -- now much different from the one Dunlop took over--will apparently move to reestablish an equilibrium similar to the one lost...
Central Issue. The initial European reaction was generally predictable. Officials of Britain's Tory government, who share many of the Nixon-Kissinger attitudes about Europe's narrow "regional personality," were privately enthusiastic. The French were decidedly negative. Reflecting the somewhat automatic paranoia of its Gaullist audience, the Paris daily La Nation suggested that Kissinger had launched not a debate but "a diplomatic offensive which in appearance only is an "offensive de charme.' " West Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung raised what may prove to be the central issue. The U.S. had posed all the important questions...
...improvisational style of the filming. Bulle Ogier, best known for her performance in La Salamandre, sensitively depicts Claire as a woman whose self-destructiveness lurks under a surface of softness. Little signs -- as when she teases her husband's friends -- hint at the tension developing underneath. In her increasing paranoia she starts catching random fragments of conversation and music on a tape recorder...