Word: paranoias
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Medically speaking, insanity is a disease of the mind such as schizophrenia or paranoia. But in the eyes of the law, insanity may be a temporary mental derangement which renders a person not responsible for his acts. After Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, a Manhattan neurologist, told a jury that Thaw was thus deranged at the time of the shooting, he was acquitted, confined in an asylum. Later a jury found him sane, set him free...
Author Mumford's analysis of the present pathology of metropolitan culture ticks it all off, from the paranoia of the ruling class to the servility of the crowd: "A million cowards upon whose blank minds the leader writes: Bravery." But he does not gloat over the threatened exhaustion of the city or its extinction in war. There are in society powerful mutations of thought and art pointing to a healthy future, and though "it needs a terrific exertion of social force to overcome the inertia, to alter the direction of movement," Author Mumford throws his weight with them...
...remained a Catholic zealot, thought of himself as the one true Catholic, believed the Church and its modern priesthood were conspiring against him. He found "the Faith comfortable and the Faithful intolerable." Biographer Symons calls his failure to make the priesthood the first step on the road to paranoia...
...revolution. Banks led a riotous march on the Court House, made a speech from the steps, would have thrown out the county officials bodily if the American Legion had not intervened. Oregon newspapers began referring to the "Mad Dog of Medford," and to the county as "The State of Paranoia." In February 1933 Editor Robert Waldo Ruhl of the Mail Tribune rose up in righteous anger against Editor Banks, who was nearly defeated already by his own misfortunes. Editor Ruhl, brother of Arthur Ruhl of the New York Herald Tribune, is everything that his enemy is not: tall, handsome, scholarly...
...manager), Long Island. Died. Mrs. Winifred Finlay Fosdick, wife of Lawyer Raymond Elaine Fosdick; by her own hand (pistol), after shooting her children, Susan, 15, and Raymond Elaine Jr., 10, to death in their sleep; in Montclair, N. J. Reason: homicidal mania growing out of a progressive form of paranoia for which she had been under treatment for several years. Brother of Manhattan's Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, Lawyer Fosdick was onetime Under Secretary General of the League of Nations, is now chief almoner to the House of Rockefeller. Died. Albert Henry Vestal, 57, U. S. Representative from...