Word: paranoias
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Many people suffering from paranoia, and foolish delusions of persecution frequently appeal to the students. Women appear who think they have a claim against every one. When the claim against every one. When the Bureau found no merit in the case of a woman sueding for an infringement of copyright, the woman tried to sue the Bureau for stealing a poem of her's entitled "Come, Across, Come, Come." Another case of a clergyman who imagined he had been imprisoned in an asylum because he was going to write a book condemning a higher ecclesiastic also reached the Bureau...
...copious quotations from Aiken's poetry and the accompanying long interpretative passages by Mr. Peterson make one feel at times as if the poetry were a sort of program music to be explained in the prose terms of psychology such a Paranoia, Megalomania or various other complexes. In these interpretations the poet's relationship to T. S. Eliot is indicated and also in certain later poems a streak of morbid bitterness is traced to the Elizabethans, Donne, Marston and Webster. The abstruse nature of Aiken's poetry can be seen in the conclusion as to his five symphonies written between...
Paranoid types: mentally moody, truculent, quarrelsome, suspicious, tending to have systematic delusions (often of grandeur) but without other symptoms of derangement (paranoia); seldom tuberculosis, often cancer...
Died. Norman Trevor, 52, longtime legitimactor (A Kiss For Cinderella, The Captive, The Goose Hangs High), cinemactor (Beau Geste, Sorrell and Son); at the State Hospital for the Insane in Norwalk, Calif., to which, suffering from paranoia, he had recently been removed from a private sanitarium where he had been committed by friends. He was born in Calcutta; engaged in the jute industry before going on the stage. Twenty-nine years ago an all-round athlete on Britain's Olympic team, he was awarded the prize for finest physique among the contestants of all nations...
Born Criminals do not exist, said George Washington University's Fred August Moss. But many a person has tendencies which predispose him to crime, viz., epilepsy, paranoia, paresis, dementia praecox, senile dementia. Smalltown children are less apt to become criminals than children of large communities, added Columbia's Hugh Hartshorne. A friendly classroom atmosphere is one of the most powerful influences on child character. "Moving pictures do not contribute to delinquency," said Philadelphia's Phyllis Blanchard. "I have sat in motion picture theatres and marveled. . . . When the villain is caught, as is always the case under the policy of those...