Word: paranoias
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...Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, teaching fellow in Government, did not feel the Russian attack was too serious. "The move stems from a paranoia attitude of the Russians toward any threatened intrusion from the West," he explained. Contrary to other University reaction, he did not feel these two attacks would lead to "anything unusual...
This same lack of perspective occasionally results in passages that are magnificent in their display of conceit and paranoia. For example, describing his flight from the Communist Party in 1938, he writes, "I therefore decided to try first of all to smash the secret apparatus by myself." His fear of the violence the Party would commit against his person for his desertion not only led him to write at night with a pistol by his hand but ultimately allowed him to write in Witness: "We traveled lightly and I drove as fast as possible. I knew that the Party...
Mavrides was reported "unmanageable" at the State Prison last week due to an acute form of paranoia which has caused him to curse officials and fellow prisoners without cause. According to prison officials, he complained of being "needled" by other inmates and has adopted an attitude of "suspicion and evasion." He is serving a sentence of from four to five years...
...psychological" picture is complete nowadays without a case of amnesia, schizophrenia, paranoia or at least galloping dipsomania. In this case Psychiatrist Morris Carnovsky advises Miss Lamarr that her trouble isn't just an ordinary trouble, but a sickness, like alcoholism. Her trouble, as yet unmentionable on the screen in so many syllables, appears to be nymphomania. In order to cure herself, she quits her high-pressure job as an art editor, her high-pressure rake (Mr. Loder) and her fancy wardrobe. Can she find happiness in dirndls, a huge little studio hideout, her neglected talent for painting, and True...
...arrest her, they were met by a one-man banzai charge by 380-pound Futubayama, until recently Sumo wrestling* champion of Japan. Once subdued (it took 30 minutes), Futubayama renounced the goddess. Jiko-san was judged a religious paranoiac, and released. But the continuing popularity of her brand of paranoia was affirmed when the unofficial "New Masses Party" loosed two assassins on Labor Leader Katsumi Kikunani, whose Tokyo unionists were preparing a general strike...